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HSCRC urges removal of sunset on user‑fee assessment to sustain analytics, regulatory work
Summary
Health Services Cost Review Commission officials told the House Health and Government Operations Committee that House Bill 54 would remove the sunset on the HSCRC’s user‑fee funding mechanism (capped at 0.1% of prior year hospital revenue) to preserve staffing, contracts and analytics tied to Maryland’s Total Cost of Care and AHEAD models.
The Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) told the House Health and Government Operations Committee that House Bill 54 would remove the sunset on the commission’s user‑fee funding mechanism and is necessary to preserve the agency’s analytic and regulatory capacity.
John Kromm, executive director of the HSCRC, said the commission is funded entirely through a user fee assessment capped at 0.1% of the prior fiscal year’s regulated hospital revenue and that House Bill 54 would remove the statute’s termination date rather than change the percentage. “What house bill 54 does is just removes the sunset on this funding formula,” Kromm said, describing the funding as essential to ongoing regulatory work and newly assigned analytic responsibilities under…
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