Md. Code, Health - General § 19-125
This is the official text of Md. Code, Health - General § 19-125, part of Maryland’s Code, Health - General — covers public health regulation.
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§19–125.
Official statutory text
A certificate of need is required before an ambulatory care facility:
(1) Offers any health service:
(i) Through a health care facility;
(ii) In space leased from a health care facility; or
(iii) In space on land leased from a health care facility;
(2) To provide those services, makes an expenditure, if a certificate of need would be required under § 19-120(k) of this subtitle for the expenditure by or on behalf of a health care facility; or
(3) Does anything else for which the federal act requires a certificate of need and that the Commission has not exempted from that requirement.
(1) Offers any health service:
(i) Through a health care facility;
(ii) In space leased from a health care facility; or
(iii) In space on land leased from a health care facility;
(2) To provide those services, makes an expenditure, if a certificate of need would be required under § 19-120(k) of this subtitle for the expenditure by or on behalf of a health care facility; or
(3) Does anything else for which the federal act requires a certificate of need and that the Commission has not exempted from that requirement.
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