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Providers warn cuts to E&M, home- and community-based services would worsen workforce crisis
Summary
Health providers and advocates told the subcommittee that recommended reductions to physician E&M reimbursements, a 1% provider rate rollback and a 2% reduction to home- and community-based services would risk access and worsen a strained behavioral-health and LTSS workforce.
Multiple provider associations and community advocates urged the Health and Social Services Subcommittee to reject analysis recommendations that would reduce provider rates included in the governor’s FY26 Medicaid allowance.
Drew Vedder of MedChi and the Maryland Academy of Family Physicians said maintaining evaluation-and-management (E&M) reimbursement above Medicare matters to keep primary care participation for Medicaid patients in support of the state’s AHEAD primary-care reforms. Anne Braun had noted DLS recommends reducing a $12,200,000 E&M enhancement in FY26; health‑system witnesses told the committee that cutting…
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