Maryland Hospital Association

Top 5 Things To Know About Maryland Hospitals:

NOT-FOR-PROFIT MISSION: Maryland’s hospitals are nonprofit organizations dedicated to delivering high quality health care and improving the health of all Marylanders.
ECONOMIC DRIVERS: Hospitals are among Maryland’s largest employers — directly employing 104,000 people and supporting 113,000 related jobs — producing $32 billion of yearly economic impact.
HEALTH EQUITY: Every Maryland hospital is committed to the pursuit of health equity — eliminating disparities based on race, ethnicity, gender, and socio-economic status.
CARE FOR ALL: Hospitals care for all regardless of ability to pay, including some 366,000 uninsured Marylanders. Care of those unable to pay totaled $723 million last year, about $2 million a day.
HEALTH CARE SAVINGS: Maryland’s unique system of regulated hospital payment keeps health costs in check — billions of dollars have been saved — while ensuring that our hospitals are able to offer state-of-the-art care.

CMS Demands Value

September 16, 2019 By: Bob Atlas, President & CEO

Last week AHA held a biennial national meeting of all nine Regional Policy Boards. CMS Administrator Seema Verma spoke on the final day, delivering strong words on the federal government’s push toward value-based payment. “We must move past the status quo, and past a fee-for-service payments to a system in which we’re paying providers to keep people healthy, reduce costs and deliver better outcomes,” she noted.
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