title: Maryland's Global Hospital Budgets--Preliminary Results from an All-Payer Model.
abstract: In the first year of Maryland's experiment in setting all-payer rates for hospital services, costs were contained and the quality of care improved, though the state still has high rates of hospital admissions and per capita spending for Medicare patients.
authors.affiliation: From the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Washington, DC (A.P.), and Baltimore (R.R., P.H.C.); and the Department of Health Care Transformation and Strategic Planning, Johns Hopkins Medicine (J.M.C.), the Health Services Cost Review Commission (D.K.), and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (J.M.S.) - all in Baltimore.
authors.forename: Ankit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Rahul
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rajkumar
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Colmers
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kinzer
authors.forename: Patrick H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Conway
authors.forename: Joshua M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sharfstein
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D017046:Cost Savings; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D005102:Health Expenditures; D017721:Hospital Costs / Q000639:trends; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008396:Maryland; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics*; D010359:Patient Readmission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D014481:United States