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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".06" citation="COMAR 10.37.03.06" title_num="10" subtitle_num="37" chapter_num="03" heading="Change in Hospital-Based Physician Compensation Source.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Each hospital shall promptly submit a rate application to the Commission for a change in rates whenever the source of a hospital-based physician's or physician support personnel's compensation has been modified (for example, a hospital-based physician previously compensated by the hospital commences billing fee for service or CRNA's previously compensated by the hospital are replaced by physicians billing fee for service.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Any rate application submitted under the requirements of §A, of this regulation, shall relate only to those changes in rates resulting from a modification in the source of a hospital-based physician's or physician support personnel's compensation.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Failure to submit a rate application as required under §A, of this regulation, shall subject the hospital to overcharge/undercharge penalties, as specified in Regulation .05, of this chapter, as if those funds presently provided for in rates and obtaining to the source of a hospital-based physician's compensation had not originally been approved.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>