People's Insurance Counsel Division established in the Office of
the Attorney General to represent the interests of homeowners
insurance and medical professional liability insurance
consumers; funding provisions added ...........................................

Premium tax exemption for health maintenance organizations and
managed care organizations, repealed .........................................

Rules and Regulations —

Adoption search, contact, and reunion services program expanded
to include services to siblings of adopted individuals .................

Community Choice Program pilot program, federal waiver to
establish a managed care system of community care
organizations to provide long term care services to eligible
Medicaid enrollees, provisions added; federal waiver to alter
eligibility for Waiver for Older Adults services, provisions added

Hospitals and nursing homes, report and analysis of adverse
events, requirements added ..........................................................

Maryland Medical Professional Liability Insurance Rate
Stabilization Fund that includes a rate stabilization account and
a medical assistance program account, established ....................

Proposed regulations, submission to Legislative Services
Department and AELR Committee review period; AELR
Committee emergency regulation approval and time limit for
effectiveness, public notice, and public website listing of
regulations and notice requests, provisions added and altered .

Reporting of information relating to health care malpractice
claims by medical professional liability insurance insurers, and
reporting of information by other liability insurance insurers,
adoption of rules and regulations, provisions added ...................

Safety - -

Hospitals and nursing homes, report and analysis of adverse
events, requirements added ..........................................................

Patient safety initiatives and funding, requirements added ..........

Salaries —

Equal Pay Commission, established to study wage disparities;
reports required ..............................................................................

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