Sponsored by: Rep. Danielle Gregoire (D-Marlborough) | Sen. Barry Finegold (D-Andover)

This legislation requires carriers to pay an assessment based on a portion of their reserves that is far greater than the amount that carriers are required to maintain to cover their risk.

Sponsored by: Sen. Cindy Friedman (D-Arlington)

Both bills address timely patient access by reducing administrative burdens relative to insurance prior authorization. They are supported through a partnership with MHA, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and Healthcare for All.

Sponsored by: Rep. Jon Santiago (D-Boston)

Both bills address timely patient access by reducing administrative burdens relative to insurance prior authorization. They are supported through a partnership with MHA, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and Healthcare for All.

Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Hunt (D-Boston)

This bill addresses EMS challenges by ensuring insurance prior authorization for patient transportation is valid for three business days to take into account any transport delays, and also ensures that our EMS providers are adequately reimbursed by MassHealth for Non-emergency Medical Transportation.

Sponsored by: Rep. Carole Fiola (D-Fall River) | Sen. Barry Finegold (D-Andover)

This bill requires carriers who design and sell “consumer-directed” plans to share accountability with providers for uncollectible patient obligations after insurance payment.

Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Finn (D-West Springfield) | Sen. Walter Timilty (D-Milton)

This legislation would disallow health plans from refusing to cover healthcare services on the basis that they were delivered by a state-approved mobile integrated health program, requires that said services be covered to the same extent as they would have had they been provided in a healthcare facility, and would lift application and registration fees for MIH programs that are focused on delivering behavioral health services.

Sponsored by: Rep. Kate Lipper-Garabedian (D-Melrose) | Sen. John Keenan (D-Quincy)

This bill would ensure healthcare providers are reimbursed for the delivery of medically necessary services that health insurers cover.

Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Moran (D-Lawrence) | Sen. John Velis (D-Westfield)

This bill prohibits the Group Insurance Commission and commercial carriers from entering into a contract with healthcare providers that allows them to make unilateral changes to a material term or condition of such contract other than a change expressly required by law or unless the effective date of such unilateral change is after the then-current term of such contract.

Sponsored by: Rep. Mindy Domb (D-Amherst)

This bill enhances the transparency of data for healthcare consumers and stakeholders by requiring the Center for Health Information and Analysis to periodically report on and include in its annual report the information it receives from insurance carriers, as well as data available from the Division of Insurance regarding medical expenses, administrative expenses, medical loss ratios, reserves, and surpluses.

Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Finn (D-West Springfield) | Sen. Jason Lewis (D-Winchester)

This bill directs the Executive Office of Health and Human Services to continue the existing enhanced Medicaid payments for certain eligible hospitals.

Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Moran (D-Lawrence) | Sen. Mike Moore (D-Millbury)

This bill would insert a new limitation into the health insurance statute prohibiting the use of the benchmark in health insurance contracts with providers.