Holy Cross Hospital of Silver Spring, Inc. v. Health Services Cost Review Commission

We are here involved as a matter of statutory construction with the question of whether fees charged by physicians in certain medical specialities to hospital patients, which fees are placed on hospital accounts and billed by the hospitals in such amounts to the patients, constitute a part of “the total costs of the hospital” so as to be considered as “reasonably related to the total services offered by the hospital” and thus whether the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission (the Commission) is empowered to review and set charges by these physicians in the specialities of…