Maryland will then be the only state that continues to set hospital rates.

But that year, the state set up a system regulating hospital rates.

Some two dozen other states have also imposed different hospital rates.

With the change, only one state, Maryland, would still regulate hospital rates.

Beyond energy, there were scattered price increases, in cigarettes, for example, and hospital rates.

New York and Maryland are the only states that still set hospital rates.

He asked those officials to pass legislation raising hospital rates to pay for the settlement and other increases in labor costs.

He said the future was unclear after action by the Legislature ending state control of hospital rates.

New York is one of only two states that now regulate hospital rates.

New Jersey uses a very complicated formula for setting hospital rates.