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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="19-218" title_number="19" title_name="Health Care Facilities" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Health Services Cost Review Commission">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Commission shall require each facility to give the Commission information that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Concerns the total financial needs of the facility;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Concerns its current and expected resources to meet its total financial needs;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Includes the effect of any proposal made, under Subtitle 1 of this title, on comprehensive health planning; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Includes physician information sufficient to identify practice patterns of individual physicians across all facilities.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The identities of individual physicians are confidential and are not discoverable or admissible in evidence in a civil or criminal proceeding, and may only be disclosed to the following:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The utilization review committee of a Maryland hospital;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The State Board of Physicians;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The Office of Health Care Quality in the Department;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The Maryland Health Care Commission; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>An investigatory body under the State or federal government.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
