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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".27" citation="COMAR 10.37.10.27" title_num="10" subtitle_num="37" chapter_num="10" heading="Designated Interested Parties.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Designated interested parties for a specific rate review proceeding may include:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Those community oriented groups which the Commission determines have a significant interest in the hospital and its rate application;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Those third-party payors or their representatives who have been designated by the Commission as interested parties for this proceeding;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>The hospital whose rates are being reviewed;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority for rate review proceedings concerning hospitals with capital financing through the Authority.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Group Hospitalization, Incorporated, for rate review proceedings concerning hospitals with which it has contractual relations; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Legal Aid Bureau of Baltimore City.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Designated interested parties for all rate applications are:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Provider Reimbursement Department of Blue Cross of Maryland, Inc.;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Medical Care Programs Administration of the Maryland Department of Health (Medicaid);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Division of Provider Reimbursement and Accounting Policy, Bureau of Health Insurance, Social Security Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare of the United States (Medicare); and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Health Insurance Association of America.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>