# COMAR Title 31 — Maryland Insurance Administration

## Subtitle 12 — Health Maintenance Organizations; Entities That Act as Health Insurers

### Chapter 05 — Dental Benefit Plan Coverage — Mandatory Point-of-Service Option

#### Regulation .02 Required Notice.

*COMAR 31.12.05.02*

A. When a health maintenance organization or dental plan organization dental provider panel is the sole dental provider panel offered to group members by a group policyholder, the dental plan organization or the health maintenance organization:

  (1) Shall offer the group policyholder a dental point-of-service option for the individual group member to accept or reject;

  (2) May not impose a minimum participation level on the mandatory dental point-of-service option; and

  (3) As part of the application, shall provide to each group policyholder the disclosure statement described in §B of this regulation, for each dental point-of-service option offered.

B. The notice shall read as follows: