Regulation .08 Rates for Identified Physician Cost.

Any hospital which incurs or accrues costs as a result of professional medical services which are personally rendered for an individual patient by a physician, and which contribute to the diagnosis or treatment of an individual patient, shall account for those costs as an Identified Physician Cost in accordance with the “Accounting and Reporting System for Hospitals” manual which is incorporated by reference in COMAR 10.37.01.02A(2).

All those identified physician costs shall be charged to the individual patient as a separate charge and any bill rendered to a patient for those costs shall clearly and separately itemize those services and charges which are attributable to an identified physician cost.

Any hospital may change without prior approval of the Commission its unit or rates for any identified physician cost as that center is defined in the Commission's “Accounting and Reporting System for Hospitals” and the Commission's “Rate Review System” which is incorporated by reference in COMAR 10.37.10.02B.

The provisions of this regulation shall apply to all General Acute Care hospitals from October 1, 1983 and after that.