Authored by HCFA Executive Director Amy Rosenthal & Mass Medical Society President Dr. Barbara Spivak MASSACHUSETTS’ HEALTH CARE is the best in the nation, yet care is still out of...
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At the community health center in downtown Lowell, patient navigator Abbas Tanner made a phone call — one of dozens that he and his colleagues would make that day. On…
SPRINGFIELD — Don’t delay responding to communication from MassHealth if you want to keep your coverage, health insurance leaders visiting Springfield advised Wednesday. Representatives from MassHealth, Massachusetts Health Connector, Health…
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared over on May 1, but as a result a number of pandemic recovery and assistance programs and regulations are changing…
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) – Hundreds of thousands of people in Massachusetts could soon lose their health insurance coverage. This after a federal pandemic-era policy has ended, now reopening the annual…
State officials on Thursday offered a first glimpse into efforts to redetermine MassHealth members’ eligibility. About six weeks into the process, which is expected to take a year, about 70,000…
IN MASSACHUSETTS, a doctor who diagnoses someone with pneumonia has to send the patient off to a pharmacy to fill a prescription for antibiotics. In most other states, the doctor…
BOSTON – Spring cleaning is underway at Medicaid agencies across the country with hundreds of thousands of people’s health insurance hanging in the balance. The change comes after a pandemic-era…
In the latest chapter in the legal war against Obamacare, a ruling Thursday by a Texas judge imperils the availability of certain HIV drugs, cancer screenings, and other preventive care without insurance copays that…
Dr. Robbie Goldstein, a senior policy adviser at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been appointed as the new commissioner for the state’s Department of Public Health. Goldstein,...
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