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State’s All-Payer Model requires non-traditional approaches to care delivery

Healthcare Informatics: Three years ago the State of Maryland launched a bold experiment to improve healthcare. With a waiver from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the state converted its hospital payment system from traditional fee-for-service to a global system, in which hospital total revenue for all payers is set at the beginning of the year. The Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) recognizes that if the state is to succeed with the All-Payer Model, providers need to consider adopting non-traditional approaches to care delivery.

In June 2015 the MHCC awarded telehealth grants to three organizations to assess the impact of remote patient monitoring (RPM) on reducing hospital encounters, improving patient care, and decreasing healthcare costs. The three projects explored the effect of RPM on patient populations with varying health conditions and in different settings, according to MHCC, which recently released a report on those pilot projects.

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