AN ACT concerning                                         

Developmental Disabilities - Community-Based Services - Funding

FOR the purpose of requiring the Developmental Disabilities Administration to develop
and implement a funding system for the distribution of State funds to private
providers for the provision of community-based services to individuals with
developmental disability; requiring the Administration; to notify providers of the
billing rate to be paid to providers within a certain time; specifying that a provider
may request an administrative resolution of the billing rate for a certain purpose;
requiring the Administration to pay providers in accordance with a certain payment
schedule under certain circumstances; providing for a certain deviation in funding
to certain, providers under certain circumstances; providing for the amount of a
reduction under certain circumstances; requiring the Administration to place
sufficient funds in a certain account to fulfill its financial obligations to providers;
and generally relating to requiring the Developmental Disabilities Administration
to develop and implement a certain funding system for the provision of
community-based services by private providers to individuals with developmental
disability.

BY adding to

Article - Health - General

Section 7-306.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume)                                                               

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

Article - Health - General

7-306.1.                                                                                         

(A)     THE ADMINISTRATION SHALL DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A FUNDING
SYSTEM FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF STATE FUNDS TO PRIVATE PROVIDERS THAT
ARE UNDER CONTRACT WITH THE ADMINISTRATION TO PROVIDE
COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITY IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE STATE PLAN.                                                              

(B)      (1) UNDER THE FUNDING SYSTEM DEVELOPED UNDER SUBSECTION (A)
OF THIS SECTION/THE ADMINISTRATION SHALL NOTIFY EACH PRIVATE PROVIDER
AT LEAST 30 DAYS BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE FISCAL YEAR OF THE BILLING
RATE OR AMOUNT OF FUNDS TO BE PAID TO THE PROVIDER FOR THE PROVISION OF
COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES TO AN INDIVIDUAL WITH DEVELOPMENTAL
DISABILITY OR A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY FOR
THE COMING FISCAL YEAR.

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Ch. 491

1994 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 491
(Senate Bill 471)