Additionally, hospitals in the state will commit to achieving quality improvements, including an annual 6.89 percent reduction in the 65 most potentially preventable hospital-acquired conditions and a reduction in Medicare 30-day readmissions to the national rate.
The five-year initiative will replace Maryland’s 36-year-old Medicare waiver. Maryland has been the only state to set its own reimbursement rates for all payers, including Medicare and commercial insurers, on the condition the state hospitals’ Medicare inpatient payment per admission growth rate didn’t exceed the national average.
Read the full report on Becker’s Hospital Review.
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