Section 19-218 - Additional information. - Maryland Statutes

§ 19-218. Additional information.
 

(a)  In general.- The Commission shall require each facility to give the Commission information that: 

(1) Concerns the total financial needs of the facility; 

(2) Concerns its current and expected resources to meet its total financial needs; 

(3) Includes the effect of any proposal made, under Subtitle 1 of this title, on comprehensive health planning; and 

(4) Includes physician information sufficient to identify practice patterns of individual physicians across all facilities. 

(b)  Confidentiality.- The names of individual physicians are confidential and are not discoverable or admissible in evidence in a civil or criminal proceeding, and may only be disclosed to the following: 

(1) The utilization review committee of a Maryland hospital; 

(2) The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland; or 

(3) The State Board of Physicians. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 43, § 568R; 1982, ch. 21, § 2; 1985, ch. 112; 1988, ch. 6, § 1; 1989, ch. 5, § 1; 1999, ch. 702, § 2; 2003, ch. 252, § 10.]