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MARYLAND MANUAL 77 whether the financial resources of each institution are sufficient to meet its financial requirements and to concern itself with solutions when resources are inadequate. After July 1, 1974, the Commission will have the added responsibility of reviewing the established rates and that these rates are set in rea- sonable relationship to the institution's aggregate costs and that the rates are set equitably among all purchasers of services without undue discrimination (Code 1957, 1971 Repl. Vol., 1972 Supp., Art. 43, sees. 668A-568X). Appropriations 1973 1974 General Funds ............... $141,332 $227,285 Staff: 1973, 7; Staff: 1974, 9. OFFICE OF MEDICAL CARE PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION John J. Kent, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene for Medical Care Programs 301 West Preston Street, Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 383-2656 The Statewide Medical Assistance Program provides for medical services in the home, office, hospital and nursing home. These services include hospital inpatient services and hospital outpatient services, diagnostic, licensed laboratory services, dental and optometric services, ambulance, special treatment, drugs and certain medical supplies to indigent and medically indigent. The Administration also involves pur- chase of care under the Medicare program. The medical expenses of this program are Federally matched on a fifty-fifty basis for approximately ninety per cent of the recipients. For the remaining ten per cent the medical expenses are funded one hundred per cent from State and local funds. The medical expenses for this group, however, are approximately twenty-five per cent of the total expenditures for the program. Appropriations 1973 1974 General Funds .............. .$142,604,773 $156,946,767 Special Funds ............... 8,493,937 10,976,612 Totals ................ $151,078,710 $167,923,979 Staff: 1973, 145; Staff: 1974, 199. OFFICE OF PROGRAM SERVICES Matthew Tayback, Sc.D., Assistant Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene Jean Rose Stifler, M.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene 301 W. Preston Street, Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 383-2603 The objectives of the Office of Program Services are executed through ten major administrations: Aged and Chronically III Services, Drug Abuse, Juvenile Services, Laboratories, Local Health and Pro- fessional Support Services, Medical Care Programs, Mental Hygiene, Mental Retardation, and Preventive Medicine. The Office of Program Services has the purpose of assuring efficient and effective performance within each administration and of obtaining an integrated and coordinated effort to achieve departmental objec- t.lvpg. |
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