Appointed by Governor: Terry L. Lierman; Karyl T. Rattay, M.D.; Lucy E. Wilson, M.D.; eight vacancies
Appointed by Senate President: two vacancies
Appointed by House Speaker: two vacancies
Appointed by Executive Director, Maryland Association of Counties: two vacancies
Appointed by Chief Executive Officer, Maryland State Medical Society: two vacancies
Appointed by Executive Director, League of Life & Health Insurers of Maryland: two vacancies
Appointed by President & CEO. Maryland Hospital Association: one vacancy
Appointed by Executive Director, Maryland Rural Health Association: one vacancy
Ex officio: Yaakov (Jake) Weissmann, Esq., Secretary of Budget & Management; MEena Seshamani, M.D., Ph.D., Secretary of Health; Marie L. Grant, J.D., Maryland Insurance Commissioner; Perrie T. Briskin, Deputy Secretary of Health Care Financing; Johanna Fabian-Marks, Executive Director, Maryland Health Benefit Exchange; Douglas B. Jacobs, M.D., Executive Director, Maryland Health Care Commission; vacancy, Executive Director, Health Services Cost Review Commission
Staff: Andre Chappel, Ph.D.
Tracey R. DeShields, J.D.
c/o State Health Care Commission
Maryland Department of Health
Reisterstown Road Plaza, 4160 Patterson Ave., Baltimore, MD 21215
(410) 764-3483
e-mail: andre.chappel@maryland.gov
e-mail: tracey.deshields2@maryland.gov
Final Report to Governor & General Assembly due December 1, 2029 (Chapter 244, Acts of 2026).
The Commission charge is to study how health care is delivered in other states and countries, and how those systems are evolving. It will consider the role the elements of the existing health care system in Maryland would play in a patient–centered health care system; the role of worker’s compensation in an integrated system; and how to delineate covered health care services, such as basic, preventive, acute illness, chronic illness, and elective. Further, the Commission will examine new models of health care practitioner education and development; how to balance patient–centered health care and cost; and how to provide strong health care provider networks throughout the State so that the health care system does not decide between patients and health care practitioners. In addition, the Commission will evaluate how to address low physician reimbursement rates (relative to other states) which cause health care practitioner shortages and affect access, particularly for specialists. Moreover, it is to consider what roles hospitals, acute care centers, urgent care providers, other facilities, and health care practitioners would play in a new health care system; what model health care systems should be considered; and how to ensure that innovation is not constrained by the current health care system. Finally, the Commission will note how high deductibles and limited networks in health insurance coverage deter care and decrease equal access to health care in the current system; and make recommendations regarding the establishment of a new comprehensive health care system in Maryland.
Thirty members constitute the Commission. Of these, the Governor appoints eleven members, and the Senate President and House Speaker each appoint two. Eight members represent various associations, and seven members serve ex officio.
Authorization for the Workgroup ends May 31, 2030.
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