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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved May 15, 1984.

CHAPTER 470

(House Bill 1251)

AN ACT concerning

Health Services Cost Review Commission - Rates for
Outpatient Services

FOR the purpose of providing incentives for Medicaid recipients

and other patients to be directed to cost efficient

providers of outpatient services by requiring the Health
Services Cost Review Commission to consider the rates for
similar services in a nonhospital setting in determining the
reasonableness of rates for outpatient services.

FOR the purpose of permitting the Health Services Cost Review
Commission to consider the rates for similar services in

certain nonhospital settings in____determining____the

reasonableness of rates for clinic services of a health care
facility; and providing for the termination of the
provisions of this Act on a certain date.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health - General

Section 19-216

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health - General

19-216.

(a) The Commission may review costs and rates and make any
investigation that the Commission considers necessary to assure
each purchaser of health care facility services that:

(1)  The total costs of the facility are related
reasonably to the total services that the facility offers;

(2)  The aggregate rates of the facility are related
reasonably to the aggregate costs of the facility; and