Ch. 6

LAWS OF MARYLAND

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] 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. The names 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:

(i) The utilization review committee of a
Maryland hospital;

(ii) The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the
State of Maryland;

(iii) The State Board of Medical Examiners; or

(iv) The Commission on Medical Discipline of
Maryland.

19-217.

(e) In the determination of reasonable rates for each
facility, as specified in this section, the Commission shall take
into account all of the cost of complying with recommendations
[made] MADE, under Subtitle 1 of this title, on comprehensive
health planning.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Punctuation omitted in §§ 19-213 (3) and
19-217(e) of the Health - General Article.

Occurred: Ch. 21, Acts of 1982.

19-308.2.

(a) (2) The Department shall adopt guidelines, after
consultation with the Maryland Hospital [Association,]
ASSOCIATION, INC., governing the transfer of patients between
hospitals to ensure that transfers of patients between hospitals
are accomplished in a medically appropriate manner and in
accordance with the health care policies of the State[,] that, at

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