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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".27" citation="COMAR 10.67.06.27" title_num="10" subtitle_num="67" chapter_num="06" heading="Benefits — Limitations.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The benefits or services not required to be provided by an MCO are as follows:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Experimental or investigational services, including organ transplants determined by Medicare to be experimental, except when an enrollee is participating in an authorized clinical trial as specified in Regulation .26-1 of this chapter;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Any service or treatment that is not medically necessary;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Services performed or prescribed under the direction of a person who is not a health care practitioner;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Services that are beyond the scope of practice of the health care practitioner performing the service;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Transportation services provided through grants to local governments pursuant to COMAR 10.09.19, other than assisting enrollees to access nonemergency transportation services through their local transportation grantee agency;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Health-related services and targeted case management services provided to children when the services are:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Specified in the enrollee's individualized family service plan (IFSP), or an individualized education program (IEP); and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Delivered in the schools or through Children's Medical Services community-based providers;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Autopsies;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Immunizations required for travel outside the continental United States;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>Services received while the enrollee is outside the United States;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>Abortions;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(11)">
      <text>Diet and exercise programs for the loss of weight;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(12)">
      <text>Prescriptions or injections for central nervous system stimulants and anorectic agents when used for controlling weight;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(13)">
      <text>In vitro fertilization, ovum transplants and gamete intrafallopian tube transfer, zygote intrafallopian transfer, or other techniques used in these or similar procedures;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(14)">
      <text>Services to reverse a voluntary sterilization procedure;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(15)">
      <text>Lifestyle improvements, including smoking cessation, nutrition counseling, or physical fitness programs, unless specifically included as a covered service;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(16)">
      <text>Nonmedical ancillary services such as vocational rehabilitation, employment counseling, or educational therapy;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(17)">
      <text>Private duty nursing for adults 21 years old and older;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(18)">
      <text>Services incurred before the effective date of coverage for an enrollee;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(19)">
      <text>Dental or orthodontic care;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(20)">
      <text>Piped-in oxygen or oxygen prescribed for standby purposes or on an as-needed basis; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(21)">
      <text>Cosmetic surgery when performed solely to maintain normal physical appearance or enhance beyond average level toward an aesthetic ideal.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(22)">
      <text>Enteral nutritional and supplemental vitamins and mineral products when administered orally.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>An MCO is not required to provide any of the benefits or services which are reimbursed directly by the Department as described in COMAR 10.67.08.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>