Bill > S513

This bill amends existing Massachusetts law concerning medical liability insurance by allowing insurance companies to establish different risk classifications and premium charges based on a medical practitioner's enrollment in and use of the state's prescription monitoring program, which is a system designed to track controlled substance prescriptions. Specifically, it adds language to Chapter 175 of the General Laws to permit these risk-based classifications and charges. Furthermore, the bill mandates that the commissioner of insurance will create regulations requiring insurance carriers to obtain statements from practitioners, who are required to use the prescription monitoring program, affirming their enrollment and their actual utilization of the program as mandated by law and public health regulations.