In selecting community health resources proposals to be funded under this subtitle, the Commission shall:

1. A. Consider geographic balance; and

2. B. Give priority to community health resources that:

   1. (1) In addition to normal business hours, operate during evening and weekend hours;
   2. (2) Have partnered with a hospital to establish a reverse referral program at the hospital;
   3. (3) Reduce the use of the hospital emergency department for nonemergency services;
   4. (4) Assist patients in establishing a medical home with a community health resource;
   5. (5) Coordinate and integrate the delivery of primary and specialty care services;
   6. (6) Promote the integration of mental and somatic health with federally qualified health centers or other somatic care providers;

   7. (7) Fund medication management or therapy services for uninsured individuals:

      1. (a) Whose income is up to 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines;
      2. (b) Who meet medical necessity criteria; and
      3. (c) Who are ineligible for the public mental health system;
   8. (8) Provide a clinical home for individuals who access hospital emergency departments for mental health services, substance abuse services, or both; and
   9. (9) Support the implementation of evidence-based clinical practices.

Authority: Health-General Article, §§19-2107, 19-2109, and 19-2201, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date:

Regulations .01—.02 adopted as an emergency provision effective October 31, 2006 (33:24 Md. R. 1905); adopted permanently effective February 12, 2007 (34:3 Md. R. 299)