Even as they prepare to treat a surge of COVID-19 patients in emergency rooms and field hospitals, hospitals and private medical practices say they are not immune from the economic factors that have put much of the country into a ...

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Maryland health care workers, from those still in training to those who thought their careers were over, are volunteering to help staff the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Larry Hogan has pushed for 6,000 new hospital beds to ...

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A new survey indicates that a nearly 50 percent pay gaps exist between male and female physicians in Maryland, and that Maryland physicians earn less on average than do physicians nationally. The survey of 508 Maryland physicians was conducted by Merritt Hawkins, ...

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The Maryland All-Payer Model incentivizes hospitals to focus on quality of care and reduce readmissions. But doctors remain on a separate system, a fee-for-service model that encourages more patients. A recent amendment to Maryland’s agreement with the Centers for Medicare ...

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Pharmacists in Maryland will be able to prescribe birth control under a new Maryland law, another step as they gain more abilities to act as providers of medical care. At a time when the medical community is concerned about disparities ...

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President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night offered some insights into what his plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act might look like, but an important aspect of any reform that would uniquely affect ...

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This past summer, MedChi applauded Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh’s announcement that his office had joined the U.S. Department of Justice and other state attorneys general in a lawsuit to block Anthem’s proposed acquisition of Cigna and Aetna’s acquisition ...

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In 2012 MedChi lobbied the General Assembly, in conjunction with Gov. Martin O’Malley’s then-Health Secretary Joshua Sharfstein, to get the General Assembly to expand Medicaid coverage and raise the Medicaid reimbursement to all physicians for evaluation and management (E&M) codes ...

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This time last year, things were still looking bad for Evergreen Health. After the malfunction-ridden roll-out of Maryland’s health exchange in 2013, the fledgling, nonprofit health insurance co-op had only about, 2,000 members. Now it has about 21,000 members and ...

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While Maryland’s experimental hospital payment system has seen early success — such as reported cost savings of more than $100 million during its first full year — officials say hard work lies ahead. In the program’s second year, the state ...

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