A hospital’s ability to provide non-primary PCI [by virtue of the extension of its research waiver and entry into] in the Registry expires on the earlier of:

1. A. The date upon which the Commission determines, through implementation in an update to COMAR 10.24.17 or other appropriate regulation, that the results of the C-PORT E study are sufficiently complete to guide public policy;
2. B. A finding by the Commission that the C-PORT E study did not produce reliable results to guide public policy; or
3. C. A finding by the Commission that the evidence is insufficient to change Policy 5.0 of COMAR 10.24.17.04E that requires non-primary PCI to be performed in hospitals with on-site cardiac surgery services.

Authority: Health-General Article, §§19-101, 19-118, 19-120, and 19-120.1, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: October 22, 2007 (34:21 Md. R. 1915)

Regulation .02C amended as an emergency provision effective April 11, 2009 (36:10 Md. R. 714); amended permanently effective July 16, 2009 (36:14 Md. R. 984)

Chapter revised as an emergency provision effective March 23, 2011 (38:8 Md. R. 504); revised permanently effective June 13, 2011 (38:12 Md. R. 705)

Regulation .04A amended effective October 17, 2011 (38:21 Md. R. 1278)

Chapter revised effective March 4, 2013 (40:4 Md. R. 346)