TY  - JOUR
T1  - Maryland's hospital cost review commission at 40: A model for the country
AU  - Kastor JA, Adashi EY
Y1  - 2011/09/14
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2011.1311
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1137
EP  - 1138
VL  - 306
IS  - 10
N2  - 
Several problems led to the creation of the HSCRC. Hospital costs per admission were significantly higher in Maryland than the average in other states and were increasing more rapidly each year, some hospitals were losing increasing amounts of money caring for uninsured patients, and several Maryland hospitals were denying care to patients with little or no health insurance.1- 2 The legislation creating the HSCRC gave it the power to set rates prospectively each year that all insurers would pay to the acute care hospitals in the state, making Maryland, in the local idiom, an “all-payer state.” A federal waiver transferred hospital rate control over Medicare and Medicaid recipients to the HSCRC.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.1311
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.1311
ER  -