UMMC’s ambulatory care center plans are on hold

After Maryland updated its system for paying hospitals, and now caps the amount of money hospitals can make by treating patients in any given year, the University of Maryland Medical Center has halted plans to build an ambulatory care center, according to Baltimore Business Journal.

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The project was conceived before the updated cap. According to Baltimore Business Journal, the center would cost $50 million and be 100,000 square-feet as part of a larger reorganization of UMMC Midtown Campus.

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