§ 15-121. Reimbursement methodology or methodologies used to reimburse physicians for health ca...
West's Annotated Code of MarylandInsuranceEffective: April 5, 2018
Effective: April 5, 2018
MD Code, Insurance, § 15-121
§ 15-121. Reimbursement methodology or methodologies used to reimburse physicians for health care services
(b) This section applies to a carrier that provides health care services to enrollees, or otherwise makes health care services available to enrollees, through contracts with providers.
(c)(1) Each carrier shall identify and disclose in layman's terms in its enrollment sales materials the reimbursement methodology or methodologies the carrier uses to reimburse physicians for health care services rendered to enrollees, including capitation, case rates, discounted fee-for-service, and fee-for-service reimbursement methodologies.
(2) The Maryland Health Care Commission shall develop a uniform definition in layman's terms of each reimbursement methodology required to be disclosed and identified by carriers under paragraph (1) of this subsection, including a representative example of a typical capitation arrangement between a carrier and a physician.
(d)(1) In addition to the requirements of subsection (c)(1) of this section, each carrier shall disclose in its enrollment sales materials the distribution of each $100 it receives in premium dollars from enrollees for the preceding calendar year, for which data are available.
(2) The disclosure required under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be in the form of a pie chart or bar graph with descriptive terms and in layman's terms that identifies consistent with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' health maintenance organization annual statement (“orange form”):
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Added by Acts 1997, c. 145, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 2018, c. 12, § 1, eff. April 5, 2018.
MD Code, Insurance, § 15-121, MD INSURANCE § 15-121
Current through legislation effective through April 25, 2024, from the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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