This chapter establishes the manner in which carriers and private review agents acting on behalf of carriers may apply utilization review criteria and impose documentation requirements to the surgical treatment of the morbid obesity benefit mandated by Insurance Article, §15-839, Annotated Code of Maryland.

Authority: Insurance Article, §§2-109(a)(1) and 15-893, Annotated Code of Maryland; Ch. 301, Acts of 2005

Effective date: April 10, 2006 (33:7 Md. R. 676)