Bill > HB1112

This bill alters the duties of the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission, a body established to study and make recommendations concerning the stability of the individual and group health insurance markets in Maryland. The Commission is now tasked with exploring various strategies to achieve this stability, including considering direct payment or fee-for-service models for services covered by the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, which is the state's Medicaid program. It will also examine regulatory exemptions for managed care organizations, merging individual and small group markets, pooling purchasing power across states, controlling prescription drug costs, sustaining federally qualified health centers, establishing a reinsurance stability fund, reinstating the Maryland Health Insurance Plan, and identifying ways to sustain and increase premium assistance in the individual market.