Department Blog

Posted 12/27/2019 by Deborah Stein

Impact of Global Budget Revenue Policy on Emergency Department Efficiency in the State of Maryland

Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM, FACPM, Professor, and Laura Pimentel, MD, CPME, Clinical Professor, both in the Department of Emergency Medicine, are among the authors of the article, “Impact of Global Budget Revenue Policy on Emergency Department Efficiency in the State of Maryland” (full text available), recently published in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. The authors investigated the impact of the State of Maryland’s Global Budget Revenue program on length of stay for inpatients in emergency departments in Maryland.