| MD | HB1031 | Intro
25% | Health Insurance - Required Coverage - Prescription Weight Loss Drugs
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1013 | Intro
25% | Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Nonopioid Drugs for the Treatment of Pain
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB773 | Intro
25% | Requiring administrators, carriers, and pharmacy benefits managers to include certain cost sharing amounts paid by or on behalf of an enrollee or a beneficiary when calculating the enrollee's or beneficiary's contribution to a cost sharing requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB936 | Intro
25% | Requiring that a carrier provide the written notice of cancellation or nonrenewal of a small group market health benefit plan by certified mail, return receipt requested, and by electronic means and include information regarding additional health ben...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB784 | Intro
25% | Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that the Act is not intended to affect any l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB970 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for insulin or certain other similar medication that is being used to treat an insured's or enrolle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB974 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Insurance Commissioner to enforce certain provisions of law related to preventive services consistent with federal rules and guidance in effect on December 31, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB930 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB760 | Intro
25% | Exempting from certain requirements relating to offering health benefit plans to small employers in the State health benefit plans issued through a professional employer organization, coemployer, or other organization located in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB869 | Intro
25% | Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB848 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain carriers, if the number of adverse decisions issued by carrier for a type of service has grown by more than 10% in the immediately preceding calendar year or 25% in the immediately preceding 3 calendar years, to provide certain info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB665 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, beginning on July 1, 2026, to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB666 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage for calcium score testing for individuals who have at least three of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB820 | Intro
25% | Requiring that certain carriers, pharmacy benefits managers, and private review agents ensure that artificial intelligence, algorithm, or other software tools are used in a certain manner when used for conducting utilization review.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB813 | Intro
25% | Altering the reimbursement levels for drug products that the Maryland Medical Assistance Program is required to establish and that pharmacy benefits managers that contract with a pharmacy on behalf of a managed care organization are required to reimb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB646 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for insulin or certain other similar medication that is being used to treat an insured's or enrolle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB641 | Intro
25% | Altering the circumstances under which certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide coverage for medically appropriate and necessary hearing aids for minors and adults to require cover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB830 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for genetic testing for certain individuals who may have an increased risk of developing cancer and follow-up evidence-based cancer i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB406 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to orthoses beginning January 1, 2026; defining "orthosis" as a certain c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB411 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for postpartum depression screening; authorizing the insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB438 | Intro
25% | Altering the reimbursement levels for drug products that the Maryland Medical Assistance Program is required to establish and that pharmacy benefits managers that contract with a pharmacy on behalf of a managed care organization are required to reimb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB474 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain carriers, if the number of adverse decisions issued by the carrier for a type of service has grown by more than 10% in the immediately preceding calendar year or 25% in the immediately preceding 3 calendar years, to provide certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB476 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for genetic testing for certain individuals who may have an increased risk of developing cancer and follow-up evidence-based cancer i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB475 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain carriers from imposing a prior authorization, step therapy, or quantity limit requirement on eligible providers for health care services that are included in a two-sided incentive arrangement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB518 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide individuals over at least 45 years of age with coverage for certain preventive screenings for ovarian cancer, including MRI and CT scans; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB508 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage to victims of domestic violence for aesthetic services and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB697 | Intro
25% | Requiring a health insurance carrier to submit quarterly reports to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner on certain information related to the carrier's use of artificial intelligence or automated decision-making systems; and altering the information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB659 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain carriers from imposing a prior authorization, step therapy, or quantity limit requirement on eligible providers for health care services that are included in a two-sided incentive arrangement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB328 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, beginning on July 1, 2026, to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB529 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain carriers to post updated, accurate, and complete prescription drug formularies and changes to the formularies in a certain manner on a carrier's website; and requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health mai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB1 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "legally protected health care" to include certain reproductive, fertility preservation, and contraceptive treatment, including medications and supplies, for the purposes of certain provisions of law that prohibit health oc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB382 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations from applying a prior authorization requirement, step therapy protocol, or fail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB381 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage to victims of domestic violence for aesthetic services and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB383 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to orthoses beginning January 1, 2026; defining "orthoses" as a certain c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB459 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage without the requirement for copayment, coinsurance, or deductible to professional firefighters for cancer screening in accorda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB303 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "purchaser" for the purpose of certain provisions of State insurance law governing pharmacy benefits managers to exclude certain nonprofit health maintenance organizations; and repealing certain provisions that restrict app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB374 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage without the requirement for copayment, coinsurance, or deductible to professional firefighters for cancer screening in accorda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB393 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain carriers to post updated, accurate, and complete prescription drug formularies and changes to the formularies in a certain manner on a carrier's website; and requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health mai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB372 | Intro
25% | Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB321 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "purchaser" for the purpose of certain provisions of State insurance law governing pharmacy benefits managers to exclude certain nonprofit health maintenance organizations; and repealing certain provisions that restrict app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB334 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a program to provide universal newborn nurse home visiting services to all families with newborns residing in the State; requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB156 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a program to provide universal newborn nurse home visiting services to all families with newborns residing in the State; requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB111 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations from applying a prior authorization requirement, step therapy protocol, or fail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB60 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage for calcium score testing for individuals who have at least three of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB11 | Intro
25% | Repealing the June 30, 2025 termination date for certain provisions of law related to referrals to and reimbursement of specialists and nonphysician specialists who are not part of a carrier's provider panel; requiring that a certain referral procedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB116 | Intro
25% | Altering certain definitions of "health benefit plan" to conform to federal regulatory requirements for hospital indemnity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB211 | Intro
25% | Altering certain definitions of "health benefit plan" to conform to federal regulatory requirements for hospital indemnity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
