HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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FOR the purpose of clarifying the services that constitute
home health care; redefining "home health agency" to
clarify the manner in which its home health care is
administered; requiring an applicant for a license as a
home health agency to show that minimum home health
care services will be provided; providing certain
penalties for operating without a license; and enabling
the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to suspend
a home health agency license.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

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Section 19-401(b) and (c), 19-406, and 19-407(2)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter ____ (H.B. 200) of the Acts

of the General Assembly of 1982)

BY adding to

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Section 19-409

Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter (H.B. 200) of the Acts

of the General Assembly of 1982)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland

(as enacted by Chapter ____ (H.B. 200) of the Acts of the

General Assembly of 1982) read(s) as follows:

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19-401.

(b)  "Home health agency" means a health related
institution or a part of an institution that:

(1)  Is owned or operated by 1 or more persons,
whether or not for profit and whether as a public or private
enterprise; and

(2)  Directly or through a contractual
arrangement, provides home health care [to TO a sick or
disabled individual in the residence of that individual ]
HOME HEALTH CARE THAT IS ADMINISTERED CENTRALLY AND UNDER
THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF A PHYSICIAN.

(c)  "Home health care" [includes the following broad
range of services that are administered centrally and under
the general direction of a physician] MEANS ANY OF THE
FOLLOWING SERVICES THAT ARE PROVIDED TO A SICK OR DISABLED
INDIVIDUAL IN THE RESIDENCE OF THAT INDIVIDUAL UNDER THE