CHAPTER 261
(House Bill 660)

AN ACT concerning

Medical Assistance Program - Federally Qualified Health Centers

FOR the purpose of specifying a certain time and methodology for the Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene and a federally-qualified health center to determine
certain costs of the center requiring the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene, in consultation with the Federally Qualified Health Centers, to
establish in regulation as a prospective rate the reasonable cost to a federally
qualified health center in providing services to enrollees under the State
Medical Assistance Program; requiring certain federally qualified health centers
to provide the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene with certain data and
reports to assist the Department in making a certain calculation; authorizing a
certain federally qualified health center at certain times to make a request for
the Department to review certain payments made to the center; establishing the
effective date for certain adjustments, requiring the Department, in
consultation with certain other groups, to undertake a certain study and submit
a certain report to certain persons by a certain date; making certain provisions
of this Act subject to a certain contingency; and generally relating to federally
qualified health centers under the State Medical Assistance Program.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 15-103(e)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments.
Article - Health - General
Section 15-103(e)(2)(i)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)
(As enacted by Section 1 of this Act)

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

Article - Health - General

15-103.

(e) (1) At least quarterly, the Department shall pay to a federally qualified
health center the difference between the payment received by the center from a
managed care organization for services provided to enrollees of the managed care
organization and, AS DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS