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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 10.45.07.02" title_num="10" subtitle_num="45" chapter_num="07" heading="Funding Priorities.">
  <text>In selecting community health resources proposals to be funded under this subtitle, the Commission shall:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Consider geographic balance; and</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Give priority to community health resources that:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>In addition to normal business hours, operate during evening and weekend hours;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Have partnered with a hospital to establish a reverse referral program at the hospital;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Reduce the use of the hospital emergency department for nonemergency services;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Assist patients in establishing a medical home with a community health resource;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Coordinate and integrate the delivery of primary and specialty care services;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Promote the integration of mental and somatic health with federally qualified health centers or other somatic care providers;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Fund medication management or therapy services for uninsured individuals:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Whose income is up to 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Who meet medical necessity criteria; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Who are ineligible for the public mental health system;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Provide a clinical home for individuals who access hospital emergency departments for mental health services, substance abuse services, or both; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>Support the implementation of evidence-based clinical practices.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>