Setting Hospital Rates To Control Costs And Boost Quality: The Maryland Experience -- Murray 28 (5): 1395

A paper published in the September-October issue of the journal Health Affairs points to Maryland as a model of how states can use regulation to prevent cost shifting. Since 1977 the state has required that private insurers and Medicare reimburse hospitals at the same rate. As a result, Maryland’s average hospital cost per patient was 2% below the national average in 2007, compared with 26% above...