Request for Public Comment
Public comment on proposed quality measure to be used in a 2025 Certificate of Need (CON) home health review
The Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) published a notice in the Maryland Register on April 5, 2025, Volume 52, Issue 7 seeking public comment on proposed quality measure to be used in a 2025 Certificate of Need (CON) home health review. This notice supplements that prior notice and extends the time to submit comments until May 7, 2025.
Comments may be sent to the Health Facilities Coordinator at the Maryland Health Care Commission, 4160 Patterson Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21215, or email (mhcc.confilings@maryland.gov). Comments must be received by May 7, 2025.
Consistent with COMAR 10.24.06.04A(3), the proposed quality performance requirements will be used to determine whether a jurisdiction shall be identified as having need for additional home health agency services if the jurisdiction has an insufficient choice of home health agencies with high quality performance. A jurisdiction is considered to have an insufficient choice of quality performing HHAs if HHAs serving 60 percent or more of the clients in that jurisdiction in the most recent year for which data is available, did not meet the applicable quality performance requirements designated by the Commission.
Based on the proposed quality measures, the following jurisdictions have need based on an insufficient choice of home health agencies with high quality performance:
Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Charles, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George’s, St. Mary’s, Wicomico and Baltimore City.
Public Comment on Draft Noncontrolled Prescription Drug Dispenser Data Submission Manual
The Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) published a notice in the Maryland Register on May 2, 2025, Volume 52 Issue 9 seeking public comment on the draft Noncontrolled Prescription Drug Dispenser Data Submission Manual (manual). The manual provides technical guidance to dispensers for reporting noncontrolled prescription drugs to the State-Designated Health Information Exchange (CRISP) as required by State law (Health General Article §19-145).
Comments may be sent by email to mhcc.noncds@maryland.gov or mailed to the Maryland Health Care Commission, 3160 Patterson Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21215. Comments will be accepted through May 22, 2025.
State law (2022) requires dispensers to submit noncontrolled prescription drug dispense information to CRISP. The information will be made available for purposes of public health, quality improvement, and treatment and care coordination of a patient. COMAR 10.25.18, Health Information Exchanges: Privacy and Security of Protected Health Information is the regulatory framework to support implementation of the law. Regulation .13 requires dispensers to begin reporting noncontrolled prescription drug dispense information to CRISP b September 1, 2025 in accordance with the manual drafted by MHCC, which must align as closely as possible with the Maryland Prescription Drug Monitoring Program.