Bill > S2588

This bill requires health care facilities in Massachusetts to collect and submit detailed demographic, professional, and educational data about their physicians, medical fellows, interns, and residents to the Board of Registration in Medicine and the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) annually. The required data includes information on race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, languages spoken, medical specialty, years of practice in Massachusetts and at their current facility, leadership and academic appointments, educational debt, and employment status. The Board of Registration in Medicine must publish this aggregated data on its website within 60 days of each year's end, and CHIA must provide a report on the collected data to the state legislature's House and Senate Clerks, the Joint Committee on Public Health, and the Department of Public Health by February 28th annually. The primary goal of this data collection is to assess the impact of physician workforce diversity on health outcomes in Massachusetts. The bill will become effective 90 days after its enactment.

Budget and Finance, Health and Social Services

Joint Committee on Public Health (Joint)

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2588