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§ 14-609. Member discount card requirements

West's Annotated Code of MarylandInsuranceEffective: April 8, 2008

West's Annotated Code of Maryland
Insurance (Refs & Annos)
Title 14. Entities that Act as Health Insurers
Subtitle 6. Discount Medical Plan Organizations and Discount Drug Plan Organizations (Refs & Annos)
Effective: April 8, 2008
MD Code, Insurance, § 14-609
§ 14-609. Member discount card requirements
Currentness
In general
(a) Each discount medical plan organization and each discount drug plan organization shall provide to a plan member or to a plan member for the member's family a discount card that includes, at a minimum, the following data elements:
(1) a statement that the discount medical plan or discount drug plan is not insurance;
(2)(i) the name or identifying trademark of the discount medical plan organization or the discount drug plan organization; or
(ii) the name or identifying trademark of the provider networks that participate with the discount medical plan or discount drug plan; and
(3) the telephone number that the plan member may call for assistance.
Reissuance of discount card
(b)(1) If a change occurs in the data element required under subsection (a)(3) of this section, a discount medical plan organization or a discount drug plan organization shall reissue a discount card.
(2) A discount medical plan organization or a discount drug plan organization shall notify a plan member when there is a material change in plan benefits or in the data elements required under subsection (a)(1), (2), or (3) of this section.

Credits

Added by Acts 2007, c. 629, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2007. Amended by Acts 2007, c. 5, § 7, eff. March 22, 2007; Acts 2008, c. 36, § 1, eff. April 8, 2008.
MD Code, Insurance, § 14-609, MD INSURANCE § 14-609
Current through legislation effective through April 9, 2023, from the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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