AAHAM Spring Meeting

MHA UPDATEMarch 15, 2013

Anne Hubbard, Assistant Vice President, Financial Policy & Advocacy

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MHA Update Agenda

• Wavier Modernization Update• Medicaid Budget Update• Proposed Federal FAP Rules

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Waiver Cushion

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Current Test vs. New Test

Medicare Inpatient Payment per

Discharge

Medicare Inpatient and Outpatient Payment per Beneficiary

Cumulative Rate of Growth

(1981 to present)

Annual Rate of Growth

Base Year1981

MD vs. National

Growth Target

MD vs. MD

Current Test New Test

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The Structure

Two three-year demonstrations – “3 + 3”

• First three-year demonstration– 2013 – 2015– More clear

• Second three-year demonstration– 2016 – 2018– Less clear

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The “Goal”

First three-year demonstration

• The Goal –– By the end of the first three years;– Limit the rate of growth in;– Total per capita inpatient and outpatient

regulated hospital revenue;– To 3.57% or less

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The “Goal”

• Based on 10-year historical average annual growth in Gross State Product (GSP)– GSP averaged 3.6%– Hospital regulated revenue averaged 6.8%

• But projected revenue growth (2013 – 2015) is 3.5%

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The “Test”

First three-year demonstration

• The Test – – By the end of the first three years;– Limit the rate of growth in;– Medicare per beneficiary inpatient and

outpatient regulated hospital revenue;– To 2.62% or less (takes into account that

Medicare grows slower than GSP)

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The “Tools”

• Total Patient Revenue (TPR) – new models• Admissions Readmissions (ARR)• Volume Adjustments• Primary Care Medical Home• More links between payment and quality• Accountable Care Organization options• New “bundled” payment approaches• Physician gain sharing

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The “Transition”

• Protection from current waiver test• Improved hospital annual updates• Process to articulate second three years• Insurance premium rate alignment• Review uncompensated care policy• Broaden HSCRC governance

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MHA Objectives

• Retain as much of the waiver subsidy as possible• Pursue innovation in care delivery• Our “critical few”

– Get out from under the existing waiver and payback provisions

– Implement real care delivery tools– Protection from Medicaid assessments– Improved update– Differential used as lever to achieve success under new

waiver

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Next Steps

• State to submit proposal – April 1• Federal government review and reply

– 2-6 month turn around • Hospitals must assess support• Failure will be painful; new waiver may be

painful• Regardless, hospitals must prepare

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FY 2014 State Medicaid Budget

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FY 2014 Maryland Budget

• Governor’s Budget - $32B – Introduced to the General Assembly Jan. 6th

- The Legislature can cut the budget but they cannot add to it without taking funds from other programs.

- Budget must be finalized by April 1st

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Medicaid Budget

• Maryland Medical Assistance Program - $7.4 billion budget request– No deficit expected

• FY 2013 will close out with a surplus. – FY 2013 Medicaid expenditures will be

reduced by $94 million to reflect lower than anticipated expenditures due to lower enrollment, favorable case mix changes and utilization trends and a 2013 reduction in MCO rates.

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Medicaid Budget Growth

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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 $-

$1,000,000,000

$2,000,000,000

$3,000,000,000

$4,000,000,000

$5,000,000,000

$6,000,000,000

$7,000,000,000

$8,000,000,000

FY 2014 Medicaid Budget Growth

• The budget grows by $300 million or 4.4%, due to expansion of Medicaid to 138% FPL, as specified under ACA. Most of this increase is federal funding, as the expansion population will be entirely covered by the federal government through FY 2017.

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Medicaid Enrollment Growth

FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013(est) FY 2014(est)0

200,000

400,000

600,000

800,000

1,000,000

1,200,000

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Medicaid Assessment

FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013 FY 2014 $-

$50,000,000

$100,000,000

$150,000,000

$200,000,000

$250,000,000

$300,000,000

$350,000,000

$400,000,000

$45,768,121

$129,919,614

$389,825,000 $391,525,000 $389,825,000

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Medicaid Assessment

• Medicaid Assessment set at $389M for FY 2014

• Other cost containment actions:– Tiering of outpatient rates and ED services (study

required to define savings)– Study required to define savings associated with

this action. If $30M anticipated is not realized, HSCRC can take action to generate necessary savings.

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Federal Proposed FAP Rules

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Federal Proposed FAP Rules

• ACA requires hospitals to have Financial Assistance Policies.

• The Department of Treasury and the IRS issued proposed rules in June 2012. Comments were due September 2012.

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Key differences Between MD and FAP Federal Policies

• Notification – community based and on hospital websites

• Application – FAP must apply to emergency and medically necessary care (MD policy doesn’t apply to medically necessary care)

• Collection – Debts can’t be collected in the ED• Language – FAP must be issued in languages

representing 10% or more of the PSA• Reasonable effort – 120 days – 3 billing statements +

copy of FAP• Application Period – 240 day period

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Federal Limitation on Charges Policy

Two Methods: Look Back & Prospective Medicare

 • The “look back” method would allow for the amount

generally billed to be determined based on a blend of public and private payor payments; thus, the reduced-cost care would likely be between 94 and 98 percent of charges in Maryland.

• The “prospective method” would set reduced cost rates at 94 percent of charges in Maryland, because the method is based on Medicare payments.

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Questions?

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