PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 13

Assembly that the Medical Care Provider
Reimbursements appropriation be
expended in accordance with the budget
detail presented to and approved by the
General Assembly. Should the department
wish to make a regulatory, policy, or
procedural change which has an increase or
decrease greater than $300,000 on the
program's budget, whether or not the
increase or decrease is offset in whole or in
part by other action, it shall inform the
budget committees of the changes and the
committees shall have 45 days to review and
consider it before it becomes effective.
Further, it is the intent of the General
Assembly that undisputed billings submitted
by community services providers be
processed promptly and payments made
within 30 days of receipt. To the extent that
failure to do so on the part of the
department results in a documented
financial burden to a provider in the form of
reasonable costs associated with interest
payments on line-of-credit or loan
borrowings, those costs are to be assumed
by the department. Further, to the extent
that the department must assume these
interest costs, they may not be paid from
funds appropriated for the community
services programs, but rather from general
funds appropriated for administrative
programs.

32.17.01.04 Medical Care Policy Administration

General Fund Appropriation...........................

Special Fund Appropriation.............................

Federal Fund Appropriation............................

32.17.01.05 Medical Care Finance and Compliance
Administration

General Fund Appropriation...........................

Federal Fund Appropriation............................

32.17.01.06 Kidney Disease Treatment Services

General Fund Appropriation...........................

Special Fund Appropriation.............................

7,295,233
64,763
3,656,298	11,016,294

6,045,203
6,059,288	12,104,491

6,126,395
368,500	6,494,895

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