Health Care Leaders' Perspectives on the Maryland All-Payer Model.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Since 2014, all hospitals in Maryland have operated under an all-payer global budget system. Hospital global budgets have gained renewed attention as a strategy for constraining cost growth, improving patient outcomes, and preserving health care access in rural and underserved communities. Lessons from the implementation of the Maryland All-Payer Model (MDAPM) may have implications for policy makers, payers, and hospitals in other settings seeking to adopt global budgets or other value-based payment models.

Objective

To examine perspectives on the implementation of the MDAPM among health care leaders who participated in its design and execution.

Design setting and participants

This qualitative study with semistructured telephone interviews was conducted fro

SUBMITTER: Kilaru AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8903109 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature