HSCRC April 2024 Commission Meeting – April 10, 2024
4160 Patterson Avenue, Baltimore MD 21215
The Commission will begin in public session at 12:00pm in the large public conference room
for the purpose of, upon motion and approval, adjourning into closed session.
The open session will resume at 1:00pm
Topic: HSCRC April Commission Meeting – April 10, 2024
Time: Apr 10, 2024 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 410 764 2605
Passcode: 9Hm89B
The Maryland Department of Health and the Health Services Cost Review Commission have submitted an application to participate in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model. The model advances Maryland’s vision of empowering all Marylanders to achieve optimal health and well-being. More details on the AHEAD Model and Maryland's application can be found
here.
NOTICE:HSCRC is requesting hospital participation with the Annual Filing Modernization Project. For more information related to the upcoming surveys and workgroups, please visit this page.
The State of Maryland is leading a transformative effort to improve care and reduce the growth in healthcare spending. On January 1, 2014, the State of Maryland and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) entered into a new initiative to modernize Maryland’s unique all-payer rate-setting system for hospital services. As the State’s hospital rate-setting authority, the HSCRC plays a vital role in the implementation of this innovative approach to health reform.
This initiative replaced Maryland’s 36-year-old Medicare waiver and allowed Maryland to adopt new and innovative policies aimed at reducing per capita hospital expenditures and improving patient health outcomes. The All-Payer Model successfully reduced costs to purchasers of care—businesses, patients, insurers, Medicare, and Medicaid—and began to improve the quality of the care that patients receive both inside and outside of the hospital. Since 2014, the State, in close partnership with providers, payers, and consumers, has made significant progress toward this modernization effort.
Under the new “Total Cost of Care Model,” which began in January 2019 and builds upon the successes of the All-Payer Model, Maryland will progressively transform care delivery across the health care system with the objective of improving health and quality of care. At the same time, the State's growth in Medicare spending must be maintained lower than the national growth rate. The Total Cost of Care Model will give the State flexibility to tailor initiatives to the Maryland health care context, and encourage providers to drive health care innovation. The Total Cost of Care Model encourages continued Care Redesign, and provides new tools and resources for primary care providers to better meet the needs of patients with complex and chronic conditions and help Marylanders achieve better health status overall. Terms of the agreement can be found
here, and additional details on the Model can be found on the
Modernization tab.
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