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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="15-136" title_number="15" title_name="Health Insurance" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Carrier” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an insurer;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a nonprofit health service plan;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a health maintenance organization; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>any other person that provides health benefit plans subject to regulation by the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Group model health maintenance organization” has the meaning stated in § 19–713.6(a) of the Health – General Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This section applies only to contracts or policies that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>are issued or delivered by a carrier; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>provide hospital, medical, or surgical benefits to individuals or groups on an expense–incurred basis.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, each carrier shall pay a bonus to primary care providers for services provided in the office:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>after 6 p.m. and before 8 a.m.; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>on weekends and national holidays.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A carrier shall provide for and describe the terms of the bonus payment required in paragraph (1) of this subsection in a separate clause in the carrier’s contract with the primary care provider.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A group model health maintenance organization is not required to make any bonus payments described in subsection (c) of this section to physicians that are employed by the physician group under contract with the group model health maintenance organization.</text>
  </level>
</section>
