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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="19-207" title_number="19" title_name="Health Care Facilities" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Health Services Cost Review Commission">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In addition to the powers set forth elsewhere in this subtitle, the Commission may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Adopt rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Create committees from among its members;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Appoint advisory committees, which may include individuals and representatives of interested public or private organizations;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Apply for and accept any funds, property, or services from any person or government agency;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Make agreements with a grantor or payor of funds, property, or services, including an agreement to make any study, plan, demonstration, or project;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Publish and give out any information that relates to the financial aspects of health care and is considered desirable in the public interest; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Subject to the limitations of this subtitle, exercise any other power that is reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In addition to the duties set forth elsewhere in this subtitle, the Commission shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Adopt rules and regulations that relate to its meetings, minutes, and transactions;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Keep minutes of each meeting;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Prepare annually a budget proposal that includes the estimated income of the Commission and proposed expenses for its administration and operation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Within a reasonable time after the end of each facility’s fiscal year or more often as the Commission determines, prepare from the information filed with the Commission any summary, compilation, or other supplementary report that will advance the purposes of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Periodically participate in or do analyses and studies that relate to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Health care costs;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The financial status of any facility; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Any other appropriate matter;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>On or before May 1 of each year, submit to the Governor, to the Secretary, and, subject to § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, to the General Assembly an annual report on the operations and activities of the Commission during the preceding fiscal year, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A copy of each summary, compilation, and supplementary report required by this subtitle;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Budget information regarding the Health Services Cost Review Commission Fund, including:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Any balance remaining in the Fund at the end of the previous fiscal year; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>The percentage of the total annual costs of the Commission that is represented by the balance remaining in the Fund at the end of the previous fiscal year;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>A summary of the Commission’s role in hospital quality of care activities, including information about the status of any pay for performance initiatives;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>An update on the status of the State’s compliance with the provisions of the all–payer model contract that includes:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Performance in limiting inpatient and outpatient hospital per capita cost growth for all payers;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Annual progress toward achieving the State’s financial targets established by the all–payer model contract;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>A summary of the work conducted, recommendations made, including recommendations made by workgroups created to provide technical input and advice, and Commission action on activities related to the all–payer model contract;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>Actions approved by the Commission to promote alternative methods of rate determination and payment of an experimental nature, as authorized under § 19–219(c)(2) of this subtitle;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>Reports submitted to the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation relating to the all–payer model contract;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="6">
          <text>Any known adverse consequences in implementing the all–payer model contract, as reported to the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, that may negatively impact quality of or access to care, and the actions taken by the Commission to mitigate the consequences; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="7">
          <text>Annual progress made in the development of public and private partnerships between hospitals and other entities, including community–based physicians, community–based organizations, and other post–acute care providers, to achieve the population health goals established with the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Any other fact, suggestion, or policy recommendation that the Commission considers necessary;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Oversee and administer the Maryland Trauma Physician Services Fund in conjunction with the Maryland Health Care Commission; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>If the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issues a warning notice related to a “triggering event” as described in the all–payer model contract, provide written notification to the Governor, the Secretary, and, subject to § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, the General Assembly within 15 days after the issuance of the notice.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Commission shall set deadlines for the filing of reports required under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Commission may adopt rules or regulations that impose penalties for failure to file a report as required.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The amount of any penalty under paragraph (2) of this subsection may not be included in the costs of a facility in regulating its rates.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Except for privileged medical information, the Commission shall make:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each report filed and each summary, compilation, and report required under this subtitle available for public inspection at the office of the Commission during regular business hours; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each summary, compilation, and report available to any agency on request.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Commission may contract with a qualified, independent third party for any service necessary to carry out the powers and duties of the Commission.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Unless permission is granted specifically by the Commission, a third party hired by the Commission may not release, publish, or otherwise use any information to which the third party has access under its contract.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
