MARYLAND: Changes to Md. Medicare waiver in works

ANNAPOLIS - Maryland officials will submit a plan to the federal government aimed at allowing them to hang onto about $1 billion in Medicare reimbursements received under a unique agreement with Washington, the chairman of a panel that sets hospital billing rates told lawmakers Tuesday.

John Colmers, chairman of the state's Health Services Cost Review Commission, updated lawmakers on the status of talks with the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the state's Medicare waiver.

"I will say that we have been very greatly encouraged by those discussions with CMS," Colmers ...