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§ 19-218. Additional financial information required for review

West's Annotated Code of MarylandHealth--GeneralEffective: July 1, 2012

West's Annotated Code of Maryland
Health--General
Title 19. Health Care Facilities (Refs & Annos)
Subtitle 2. Health Services Cost Review Commission (Refs & Annos)
Part II. Health Care Facility Rate Setting
Effective: July 1, 2012
MD Code, Health - General, § 19-218
§ 19-218. Additional financial information required for review
Currentness
In general
(a) The Commission shall require each facility to give the Commission information that:
(1) Concerns the total financial needs of the facility;
(2) Concerns its current and expected resources to meet its total financial needs;
(3) Includes the effect of any proposal made, under Subtitle 1 of this title, on comprehensive health planning; and
(4) Includes physician information sufficient to identify practice patterns of individual physicians across all facilities.
Confidentiality of physicians names
(b) The identities of individual physicians are confidential and are not discoverable or admissible in evidence in a civil or criminal proceeding, and may only be disclosed to the following:
(1) The utilization review committee of a Maryland hospital;
(2) The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland;
(3) The State Board of Physicians;
(4) The Office of Health Care Quality in the Department;
(5) The Maryland Health Care Commission; or
(6) An investigatory body under the State or federal government.

Credits

Added as Health-General § 19-213 by Acts 1982, c. 21, § 2, eff. July 1, 1982. Amended by Acts 1985, c. 112, § 1, eff. June 1, 1985; Acts 1988, c. 6, § 1, eff. July 1, 1988; Acts 1989, c. 5, § 1, eff. March 9, 1989. Renumbered as Health-General § 19-218 and amended by Acts 1999, c. 702, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1999. Amended by Acts 2003, c. 252, § 10, eff. July 1, 2003; Acts 2011, c. 308, § 1, eff. July 1, 2011; Acts 2011, c. 309, § 1, eff. July 1, 2011; Acts 2012, c. 295, § 1, eff. July 1, 2012; Acts 2012, c. 296, § 1, eff. July 1, 2012.
Formerly Art. 43, § 568R.
MD Code, Health - General, § 19-218, MD HEALTH GEN § 19-218
Current through legislation effective through April 9, 2023, from the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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