# Health Occupations (GHO)

## Title 19. Social Workers

### Subtitle 3. Licensing

#### Section 19-318

(a) Before a licensee in a private individual, partnership, or group practice provides social work services to a client, the licensee shall provide to the client the following disclosures:

  (1) The licensee's professional identity;

  (2) The services which are or may be provided by the licensee and the fees for each service or the hourly rate; and

  (3) Sufficient information for a patient to give informed consent regarding the nature of the services to be provided.

(b) The manner of providing these disclosures shall be as follows:

  (1) The licensee's professional identity may be provided by directing the client to the license verification section on the Board's website;

  (2) The licensee's services and fees may be provided by documented discussion or printed fee schedule; and

  (3) Informed consent may be provided by documented discussion or a written form signed by the client which is kept in the client's file.

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Md. Code Ann., Health Occ. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)