| BALTIMORE (June 21, 2016) — The second in a series of public meetings related to the passage of House Bill 1318/Senate Bill 929 – Health Benefit Plans (Network Access Standards and Provider Network Directories) will be held Thursday, July 14, 2016 at the Maryland Insurance Administration, 200 St. Paul Place, 22nd Floor Francis Scott Key Room from 10 a.m. until noon. The Maryland Insurance Commissioner is tasked with adopting regulations to establish quantitative and, if appropriate, non-qualitative criteria to evaluate a carrier’s network sufficiency.
Topics to be discussed at the July 14th meeting include:
• Geographic accessibility of primary care and specialty providers, including mental health and substance use disorder providers. §15-112(D)(2)(I)*
o Should separate geographic accessibility standards be developed for certain specialists?
o Should certain sub-specialties be treated separately from the general specialty?
• Geographic variation and population dispersion. §15-112(D)(2)(V)*
*All statutory references are to House Bill 1318.
If you plan to attend this meeting either in person or via teleconference, please RSVP to Lisa Larson. Written materials should be sent to Lisa Larson’s attention at networkadequacy.mia@maryland.gov. For those interested parties that cannot attend in person, the conference call number for this meeting is: 866-247-6034 Passcode: 1573490062.
The remaining dates for the series of Network Adequacy public hearings are as follows:
• August 4, 2016
• September 1, 2016
• October 6, 2016
• November 3, 2016
• December 1, 2016
• January 5, 2017
• February 2, 2017
About the Maryland Insurance Administration
The Maryland Insurance Administration is an independent State agency charged with regulating Maryland’s $28.5 billion insurance industry. For more information about the Insurance Administration, please visit www.insurance.maryland.gov or follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MDInsuranceAdmin or Twitter at @MD_Insurance.
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