Posted on 01/11/2014 1:38:50 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"...That's why we're modernizing our unique system. Under the new approach—made possible by the Affordable Care Act and approved by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services—Maryland will implement a groundbreaking new system of health care delivery. Using the rate setting structure, the state will set global budgets and other alternative approaches to payment that reward clinical systems of care for providing improved outcomes at lower costs. Support for this new demonstration has come from a coalition of the hospitals, the insurance companies and the state all working together with a common vision....
Under the new model, our hospitals have committed to achieving significant quality improvements,including reductions in readmission rates and hospital-acquired-conditions rates. We will limit the growth in hospital spending per capita, including inpatient and outpatient care, to the rate of growth in the state's economy. We will also control annual Medicare per capita hospital spending growth to a rate lower than the national annual per capita growth rate....
The new model will complement a number of steps Maryland has taken in recent years to transition our health care system to better support health and wellness. We have built an electronic platform for medical records, which now connects hospitals across our state and serves as a common system for alerting doctors when their patients are in the emergency room, querying prescription databases to identify people abusing pain medications and generating maps of preventable disease and costs. We're also developing an innovative approach that links community health outreach and planning to primary care. And we have created Health Enterprise Zones to address persistent health disparities in five targeted areas across the state.
When the dust from today's political battles has settled, our nation will still need a health care system that works...
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
“and other alternative approaches to payment that reward clinical systems of care for providing improved outcomes at lower costs. “
So basically, there is more money to be made treating healthy people than trying to treat those who are the most sick.
Have you noticed lately how many articles describe all the procedures we’ve always been told to have done by such and such age — that now they aren’t needed, or can wait or were never needed at all?
Sounds to me like the cost cutting has already begun.
Death panels come to life
Escape maryland before they murder you. That’s a great state motto.
and if the economy crashes as a million move in, you get aspirins for cancer?
There was something in the local news a few weeks ago about how some doctors are trying out having annual physicals be group events....a group of people go through testings, screenings, discussions about health together, like a classroom. Yuck!
Translation: Don't get sick.
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