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WES MOORE, Governor Ch. 717

– 53 – Emergency Medical Services Systems in its criteria for Level I trauma centers or pediatric trauma centers;

4. The cost incurred by a Maryland Trauma Specialty Referral Center to maintain trauma surgeons on–call in the specialty of the Center when a post–graduate resident is attending in the Center shall be reimbursed:

A. At a rate of up to [30%] 60% of the reasonable [cost equivalents] COMPENSATION EQUIVALENT hourly rate for the specialty, inflated to the current year by the physician compensation component of the Medicare economic index as designated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; and

B. When a post–graduate resident is [permitted] AUTHORIZED to be in the Center, as specified by the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems in its criteria for a Maryland Trauma Specialty Referral Center; and

5. A. A Level II trauma center is eligible for a maximum of [24,500] 26,280 hours of trauma on–call per year;

B. A Level III trauma center is eligible for a maximum of 35,040 hours of trauma on–call per year;

C. A Level I trauma center shall be eligible for a maximum of 4,380 hours of trauma on–call per year;

D. A pediatric trauma center shall be eligible for a maximum of 4,380 hours of trauma on–call per year; and

E. A Maryland Trauma Specialty Referral Center shall be eligible for a maximum of 2,190 hours of trauma on–call per year;

(ii) The cost of undercompensated care incurred by a trauma physician in providing trauma care to enrollees of the Maryland Medical Assistance Program who are trauma patients on the State trauma registry shall be reimbursed at a rate of up to 100% of the Medicare payment for the service, minus any amount paid by the Maryland Medical Assistance Program;

(iii) The cost of uncompensated care incurred by a trauma physician in providing trauma care to trauma patients on the State trauma registry shall be reimbursed at a rate of 100% of the Medicare payment for the service, minus any recoveries made by the trauma physician for the care;

(iv) The Commission, in consultation with the Health Services Cost Review Commission, may establish a payment rate for uncompensated care incurred by a