Hospitals might be able to charge slightly more for services and procedures if the state’s rate-setting commission approves a proposed 1.65 percent rate hike, which would be effective July 1 through the end of the year.

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Can it be that the once seemingly impervious bubble of the health care industry and its associated sectors is close to popping? Or, worse, has it already?

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Insurance companies are overcharging Marylanders for their health insurance, according to a report released Tuesday by the Maryland Hospital Association.

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Hospital representatives and patient advocacy groups are celebrating what they say is the first step in making high-quality palliative care programs — which create specialized treatment plans for patients with serious illnesses — accessible to all Marylanders.

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Maryland’s hospitals will bear the full brunt of the 2 percent Medicare cuts mandated by sequestration, state regulators decided Wednesday, despite passionate warnings from providers that the move would trigger layoffs and service reductions at hospitals across the state.

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Notre Dame of Maryland University announced that its School of Nursing has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Maryland Hospital Association's Who Will Care? Fund for Nurse Education.

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ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Hospital Association is urging a state commission to spare hospitals from a 2 percent Medicare cut that is part of federal budget reductions. The group issued a report Thursday warning about deteriorating financial health of state ...

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Maryland hospitals and regulators are discussing raising hospital prices for private insurers and businesses by hundreds of millions of dollars a year to make up for suggested cuts from Medicare and Medicaid. A proposal by the Maryland Hospital Association circulated ...

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Blair Eig, Lisa Rowen, Sister Helen Amos, Cliff Stewart and Eric R. Wagner were elected to the Maryland Hospital Association’s Executive Committee in June. Eig, M.D., senior vice president for medical affairs and chief medical officer at Holy Cross Hospital, ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Advocates for patients and doctors battled last week over legislation that would limit to two the number of medical experts each side would be permitted to have testify at medical malpractice trials. Patients’ attorney George S. Tolley III ...

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