The Senate, which is led by female Senate President Karen Spilka, also Wednesday passed a bill requiring MassHealth to cover new mothers’ postpartum care for a year, up from 60 days. Sen….
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Prescription-drug costs have skyrocketed in recent years, and a bill before the Massachusetts General Court aims to rein them in. The proposal would lower co-payments and other out-of-pocket costs for…
BOSTON — The state Senate on Thursday approved a health care cost reduction plan that would cap costs for insulin and require pharmaceutical companies to notify state regulators when a…
A bill tackling prescription drug costs and access easily cleared the Senate on Thursday, though it now faces an uncertain path as it moves to the House. The bill would…
Warning of a “spending problem” at Mass General Brigham, the Health Policy Commission on Tuesday both voted to require the hospital system to implement a performance improvement plan addressing its…
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AS THE YEAR draws to a close, with COVID still raging, the sad reality is that the next weeks to a few months could be quite challenging. The hope here…
Black and Hispanic residents in Massachusetts struggle to pay medical bills, find it harder to access doctor appointments and have patchier health coverage than their white counterparts, according to a…
Massachusetts has also long faced challenges in keeping health care affordable. According to the report, Hispanics were most likely to report struggling with the cost of care. Nearly one in…
CANTON — Cain A. Hayes, the new chief executive of Point32Health, describes himself as the kind of person who gets energy from being around others. But given the complicated state of…