The applicant shall have a certificate of need, as required under Subtitle 1 of this title, for the hospital, residential treatment center, or related institution to be operated. As a condition of licensure, each hospital shall establish a utilization review program for all patients admitted to the hospital. Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, in its credentialing and privileging process for a physician who provides medical services to patients at the hospital only through telemedicine from a distant-site hospital or distant-site telemedicine entity, a hospital may rely on the credentialing and privileging decisions made for the physician by the distant-site hospital or distant-site telemedicine entity.