Ch. 209

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Article - Health - General

15-115.

[(a) On certification that chronic care in a hospital is
the only alternative for a Program recipient who needs long term
skilled or intermediate nursing care in a nursing facility, the
Department may authorize payment for long term skilled or
intermediate nursing care provided to the Program recipient in a
nursing facility in an amount that is more than the maximum
reimbursement rate permitted for long term skilled or
intermediate nursing care. However, this amount may not be more
than the maximum reimbursement rate for chronic care services
that a hospital provides.]

[(b)] (A) The Department may not place a Program recipient
in a skilled or intermediate nursing facility if, because of the
condition of the Program recipient, the placement would cause
undue risk to the Program recipient.

[(c)] (B) To provide a basis for evaluating the placement
of Program recipients who need skilled or intermediate nursing
care in skilled or intermediate nursing facilities, a Program
recipient may be placed only in a nursing facility that has a
transfer agreement with a general hospital.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1988.

Approved May 2, 1988.

CHAPTER 209

(House Bill 624)

AN ACT concerning

Consumer Protection - Exemptions

FOR the purpose of exempting the professional services of a
chiropractor from the provisions of the Consumer Protection
Law.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Commercial Law

Section 13-104

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

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