Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 19-318 - Disclosures(a) Before a licensee in a private individual, partnership, or group practice provides social work services to a client, the licensee shall provide to the client the following disclosures: (1) The licensee's professional identity;(2) The services which are or may be provided by the licensee and the fees for each service or the hourly rate; and(3) Sufficient information for a patient to give informed consent regarding the nature of the services to be provided.(b) The manner of providing these disclosures shall be as follows:(1) The licensee's professional identity may be provided by directing the client to the license verification section on the Board's website;(2) The licensee's services and fees may be provided by documented discussion or printed fee schedule; and(3) Informed consent may be provided by documented discussion or a written form signed by the client which is kept in the client's file.Amended by 2021 Md. Laws, Ch. 782,Sec. 1, eff. 10/1/2021.Amended by 2021 Md. Laws, Ch. 781,Sec. 1, eff. 10/1/2021.Amended by 2017 Md. Laws, Ch. 549,Sec. 1, eff. 7/1/2018.Amended by 2017 Md. Laws, Ch. 548,Sec. 1, eff. 7/1/2018.