# COMAR Title 10 — Maryland Department of Health

## Subtitle 37 — Health Services Cost Review Commission

### Chapter 03 — Types and Classes of Charges Which Cannot Be Changed Without Prior Commission Approval

#### Regulation .02 Changes in Unit Rates.

*COMAR 10.37.03.02*

A. A hospital may vary its unit rates within any 100 percent inpatient patient care center without prior Commission approval, if the variation does not change the average charge per unit of service as prescribed in the Commission's Rate Review System.

B. A hospital may not vary its unit rates within any ancillary or ambulatory center without prior Commission approval if the Commission's Rate Review System prescribes a unit of service for that center.