Bill > S2211

This bill aims to further health empowerment and affordability by leveraging transformative health care in Massachusetts. The key provisions of the bill include: - Establishing an annual Moyamoya Awareness Day to raise awareness of this rare neurovascular condition. - Creating regional health policy councils to identify innovations and best practices, address health care shortages, and facilitate implementation of improvements across the state. - Establishing a task force to recommend aligned measures of health care provider quality and health system performance to ensure consistency in use across payers and providers. - Expanding the responsibilities of the Health Policy Commission to foster innovation in reducing hospital readmissions, address social determinants of health, and improve behavioral health integration. - Requiring pharmaceutical manufacturing companies and pharmacy benefit managers to provide detailed data and information to the Center for Health Information and Analysis to enable analysis of drug costs and pricing trends. - Establishing a mobile integrated health care program certification process and trust fund to support the administration and oversight of these programs. - Expanding the scope of practice for nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists, psychiatric nurse mental health clinical specialists, and dental therapists. - Requiring carriers and Medicaid to use the aligned quality measure set established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services when contracting with providers and assigning tiers. - Prohibiting carriers from imposing separate facility fees for certain hospital-based services and establishing reimbursement requirements for out-of-network care. - Creating the Hospital Alignment and Review Council to monitor hospital spending growth and enforce targets for the hospital rate distribution. The bill aims to promote innovation, improve quality of care, and contain health care costs in the Commonwealth.

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2211