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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 10.24.02.02" title_num="10" subtitle_num="24" chapter_num="02" heading="Collection and Reporting of Hospital Data.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Hospitals shall submit accurate, timely, and complete data which the Commission deems necessary for development of methodologies, planning, analysis, and Certificate of Need reviews as requested on a periodic basis.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The information requested by and to be reported to the Commission may include, but is not limited to, the following types of information:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Aggregate facility data:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Types of services offered;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Licensed and operating hospital beds;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Utilization data; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Staffing;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Patient-specific data:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Admission, discharge, and disposition data;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Demographic characteristics;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Patient residence data;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Medical diagnosis and treatment data;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Surgical and diagnostic procedure data;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Attending and operating physicians; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Revenue data, including actual or expected source of payment; and</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Data that are needed by the Commission to perform the duties described in Health-General Article, Title 19, Subtitle 1, Annotated Code of Maryland, and that are not set forth in COMAR 10.37.04, 10.37.06 or 10.37.07.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Except as provided in §B(3) of this regulation, the Commission shall deem a hospital which reports data to the HSCRC to be in compliance with these regulations if it submits the information required by COMAR 10.37.04, 10.37.06 or 10.37.07 in full and within the time period set forth in those chapters.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>The Commission shall deem a State psychiatric hospital to be in compliance with these regulations if it submits the information required by COMAR 10.37.06 for private psychiatric hospitals under the jurisdiction of HSCRC.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>A hospital which does not come within the jurisdiction of HSCRC, is not required to report full patient specific data to HSCRC, as set forth in COMAR 10.37.04, 10.37.06, or 10.37.07, or is required to report data as provided in §B(3) of this regulation, shall submit to the Commission a complete response to its data request within 60 days of the last day of the time period covered by the request, or within 60 days of receipt by the hospital of a data request from the Commission, whichever is longer.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>The Commission shall specify the form and format of any hospital data submission requested under §§D and E of this regulation.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>Exemptions.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>A hospital reporting under §§D and E of this regulation may request an exemption from the Commission's data request.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>A request for an exemption shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Director of the Commission not later than 30 days before a submission is due, identifying the specific data element or elements for which an exemption is requested and explaining the reasons for the exemption request.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>The Executive Director shall send a response to the request for an exemption to the hospital within 10 days of receipt by the Commission.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>