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Massachusetts Health Insurance Reform Hasn't Significantly Improved Heart Attack Readmission Rates
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High court says legal immigrants must be included in state health program
Massachusetts lawmakers must quickly come up with about $150 million to provide health insurance to tens of thousands of legal immigrants, after the state’s highest court ruled today that they were illegally excluded from subsidized coverage available to other residents. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously that a 2009 law excluding legal immigrants from the insurance program “violates ...
Massachusetts small business health insurance rates continue modest increases
State regulators Monday said they approved third-quarter health insurance rates with average increases of 1.2 percent in the market serving small businesses and individuals, continuing a trend of more modest increases seen over the past three quarters. The new rates are in the Massachusetts “small group” market, which includes tens of thousands of small companies as well as self-employed and ...
UMass Memorial head sees new era in health care
Five years ago, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that the health care system in this country is not sustainable. Double-digit annual rate increases for health insurance had become the norm, and companies and municipalities groaned under the added costs.
Massachusetts to save $91 million in health insurance costs, regulators say
Massachusetts will save approximately $91 million over the next year -- and thousands of residents who receive state-subsidized health insurance will keep the same benefits with no co-payment increases -- thanks to renegotiated contracts with insurers, regulators announced Wednesday.
Clipboard: Health plan options for small businesses expanding
The state has approved a plan by the Retailers’ Association of Massachusetts to create a small business cooperative for buying health insurance plans as a group, giving the employers access to less expensive plans. The approval came just as the Massachusetts Health Connector was relaunching its Business Express program, an online insurance marketplace similar to the one the agency provides for ...
Massachusetts Lawmakers Unveil Ambitious Plan To Cut Health Care Costs
When Massachusetts passed sweeping health insurance reform in 2006, a crucial piece was missing from the landmark legislation: how to control rising medical costs. On Friday, state lawmakers announced a new proposal to do just that, including new ways to pay doctors and hospitals, a specific cap on health-care spending tethered to economic growth and a tax on the state’s most expensive ...
Latest survey on Mass. health insurance law: More coverage, more expensive
The state’s landmark health insurance law, passed in 2006, significantly increased the number of residents ages 19 to 64 with coverage -- now at 94.2 percent. A survey released today found that it also is starting to produce results by keeping patient’s healthier and out of emergency rooms and hospitals. Unfortunately, as many probably suspect, it has done little to control costs.
Network Health Offers MassHealth Coverage Statewide
Network Health, LLC, a Massachusetts health plan that provides access to high-quality health care coverage for more than 200,000 Massachusetts residents with low and moderate incomes, announced today that eligible residents throughout western Massachusetts can now enroll in its Network Health Together® plan.
Taxpayer group says state health law not a “budget buster”
The 2006 Massachusetts law that requires most residents to have health insurance increased the state’s health care spending by about $453 million in fiscal year 2011, compared with five years earlier, according to a new report from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. That’s about what some analysts expected, the report said. The report also notes that the law has helped to propel the state ...
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