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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="5-604" title_number="5" title_name="Public Assistance" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Department may request and obtain from a fiduciary institution doing business in the State any financial records that the Department determines are necessary to verify or confirm an individual’s eligibility or ineligibility for public assistance.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>On a showing by an applicant for long–term care Medicaid benefits that the applicant has been unable to obtain from a fiduciary institution doing business in the State financial records related to financial and real property assets necessary to establish the applicant’s eligibility or ineligibility for Medicaid benefits, the Department shall request the records.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Department shall adopt regulations governing procedures for requesting, obtaining, and examining financial records that the Department determines are necessary to verify or confirm an individual’s eligibility or ineligibility for public assistance.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The regulations shall:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>include reimbursement schedules necessary to compensate fiduciary institutions for complying with this section; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>state the requirements that an applicant must satisfy in order for the Department to request financial records under subsection (b) of this section.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Secretary shall notify a fiduciary institution of the officers or employees of the Department who are authorized to request and receive financial records from the fiduciary institution.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>An individual authorized to receive information under this section may not disclose any personally identifiable information obtained or maintained under this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
