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MA S2917
MA S2917Order relative to authorizing the joint committee on Health Care Financing to make an investigation and study of certain current Senate documents relative to health care financing
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Introduced
06/09/2022
06/09/2022
In Committee
06/21/2022
06/21/2022
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
12/31/2022
12/31/2022
Introduced Session
192nd General Court
Bill Summary
For legislationfor legislationfor legislationfor legislationfor legislationfor legislationfor legislationfor legislationfor legislationfor legislationfor legislationfor legislationfor legislationfor legislationfor legislation relative to cancer patient access to biomarker testing to provide appropriate therapy; and the Senate Bills further defining eligibility for medical use marijuana (Senate, No. 70); allowing spouses to serve as caregivers (Senate, No. 89); relative to eligibility for disability services (Senate, No. 116); establishing guardians as providers of medical care to support the rights of incapacitated persons (Senate, No. 127); relative to rest homes (Senate, No. 407); relative to affordable assisted living facilities (Senate, No. 430); addressing duplicative notifications of UR approvals (administrative simplification) (Senate, No. 635); providing continuity of care for mental health treatment (Senate, No. 636); relative to pharmacy benefit managers (Senate, No. 639); empowering health care consumers (Senate, No. 642); promoting consumer choice in health care (Senate, No. 643); relative to consumer deductibles (Senate, No. 644); relative to transparency of consumer health insurance rights (Senate, No. 651); ensuring access to medications (Senate, No. 664); to require health care coverage for emergency psychiatric services (Senate, No. 672); relative to increasing consumer access to licensed rehabilitation counselors (Senate, No. 677); relative to removing barriers to non-opioid pain management (Senate, No. 687); to prevent inappropriate denials by insurers for medically necessary services (Senate, No. 688); relative to the care and treatment of patients with mitochondrial disease (Senate, No. 689); relative to emergency insulin access (Senate, No. 691); to ensure access to epinephrine for minors (Senate, No. 694); relative to specialty medications and patient safety (Senate, No. 695); relative to insurance coverage for mammograms and breast cancer screening (Senate, No. 697); relative to increasing consumer access to licensed rehabilitation counselors (Senate, No. 704); to increase access to lactation care and services (Senate, No. 713); relative to insurance coverage of mobile integrated health (Senate, No. 732); relative to safer treatment for pain (Senate, No. 1402); relative to collaborative drug therapy management optimization (Senate, No. 2492); relative to personal health information portability and accessibility (Senate, No. 2600); and relative to breast cancer equity and early detection (Senate, No. 2856), reports the accompanying Order (Senate, No. 2917).
AI Summary
This bill authorizes and directs the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing to investigate and study certain current Senate documents related to health care financing. The documents cover a wide range of issues, including cancer patient access to biomarker testing, medical use of marijuana, caregiver eligibility, disability services, guardianship for incapacitated persons, rest homes, assisted living facilities, administrative simplification, mental health treatment continuity, pharmacy benefit managers, consumer empowerment and choice in health care, deductibles, insurance transparency, medication access, emergency psychiatric services, rehabilitation counselor access, pain management, medically necessary service denials, mitochondrial disease care, insulin access, epinephrine access for minors, specialty medications, mammograms and breast cancer screening, lactation care, mobile integrated health, pain treatment, drug therapy management, personal health information portability, and breast cancer equity and early detection.
Sponsors (0)
No sponsors listed
Other Sponsors (1)
Joint Committee on Health Care Financing (J)
Last Action
Discharged to the committee on Senate Rules (on 06/21/2022)
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| Document Type | Source Location |
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| State Bill Page | https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2917 |
| Bill | https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2917.pdf |
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