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To protect the independence of clinical decision making
To study the delivery of medical care to persons held in custody
Establishing medical civil rights
To ensure access to prescription medication and community pharmacies
Relative to access to psychiatric collaborative care
Ensuring access to fair and reasonable pharmacy networks
Ensuring access to specialty medications
To advance health equity
Relative to toxic-free medical devices
Relative to provider choice
To establish a celiac disease screening pilot program
To provide rapid whole genome sequencing
Prohibiting genetic discrimination
To improve sickle cell care
To improve sickle cell care
To advance health equity
To increase the safety of individuals with disabilities relying on life-support equipment
To enhance standards of care for those with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities
Relative to home care services
To protect MassHealth applicants facing undue hardship
Exempting medications used for the treatment of opioid use disorder from the prior approval process under the Massachusetts Medicaid program
To ensure equitable health coverage for children
To support equal access to community care for elders and persons with disabilities
To preserve and protect public health
To protect medically fragile children
To promote continuity of health coverage for children
To preserve and advance Massachusetts' competitiveness in discovery, research, and innovation for a vibrant economy
Relative to ensuring treatment for genetic craniofacial conditions
Increasing access to acute hospital at home services
Protecting patients from surprise bills related to emergency ambulance service
Mandating access to cancer screenings for firefighters through health care benefits plans or programs provided by the public employer
Relative to dual diagnosis treatment coverage
Relative to patient access to certain health care services
Ensuring access to healthcare and medically necessary food for children
Prohibiting discrimination against 340b drug discount program participants
Establishing the psychology interjurisdictional compact
Authorizing a 90-day supply of medically necessary testosterone therapy medication
Protecting patients and healthcare workers from exposure to surgical smoke
Promoting community immunity
Prioritizing patient access to care
To promote rehabilitation including guaranteed health, treatment, and safety for incarcerated LGBTQI+ People
Requiring coverage of medically necessary oral and dental care for head and neck cancer survivor
Relative to insurance coverage of mobile integrated health
Improving access to breast pumps
Relative to routine childhood immunizations
Relative to collaborative drug therapy management optimization
Relative to single payer healthcare benchmarking and reporting
Promoting and enhancing the sustainability of birth centers and the midwifery workforce
Relative to capacity determination
Relative to minimizing suffering during the commitment process
Protecting patients from surprise bills related to emergency ambulance service
Mandating access to cancer screenings for firefighters through health care benefits plans or programs provided by the public employer
Relative to the use of artificial intelligence and other software tools in healthcare decision-making
To enhance standards of care for those with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities
Relative to the well-being of new mothers and infants
Relative to telehealth and digital equity for patients
Streamlining the prior authorization process
To reduce inequities in access to medical procedures
To reduce incidence and death from pancreatic cancer
Relative to insurance coverage for doula services
To protect medically fragile children
To provide retirement security to care workers
Establishing a prescription drug rebate program for seniors
Expanding access to perimenopause and menopause care
Authorizing a pilot for the use of psychedelics in licensed treatment facilities
Establishing a pilot program for access to regulated psilocybin
Relative to removing barriers to care for physician assistants
Protecting patient safety regarding non-FDA approved drugs
To address conflicts of interest in the use of temporary nursing agencies at skilled nursing facilities
To eliminate discrimination of incarcerated persons' participation in life saving programs
To increase access to the flu vaccine for older adults
Relative to primary care access
Establishing a Naloxone Purchase Trust fund
Enabling registered dental hygienists to administer nitrous oxide
Relative to medical sharps stewardship
To establish a perinatal behavioral health care workforce trust fund
Expanding loan repayment assistance for primary care physicians working in integrated primary and behavioral health care settings
Authorizing the University of Massachusetts Building Authority to purchase and construct a hospital in the town of Norwood to be operated by UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc
Relative to creating accessible CNA training
Relative to emergency medical services oversight
Providing safeguards for home healthcare workers
Instructing the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to study the feasibility of absorbing oversight of all “memory care” assisted living facilities and units in the Commonwealth
Relative to LGBTQ+ health disparities
To improve access to family physicians
Relative to staffing at home health and hospice agencies
Relative to safe patient handling and mobility in certain health facilities
Relative to physician assistant interstate compact
Relative to maintenance of certification
Removing barriers to care for physician assistants
Establishing a physical therapy licensure compact
Relative to updating the licensure of optometrists
Relative to MassHealth reimbursement to schools
Relative to public health volunteer responders
To protect health care consumers from surprise billing
Relative to eliminating the PCP referral requirement for specialty gynecological care
To streamline patient disclosure requirements
To promote increased access to patient care through equitable reimbursement
Improving the health insurance prior authorization process
To remove barriers to patient care
Measuring the impact of Long COVID in the Commonwealth
Protecting children from harmful diet pills and muscle-building supplements
To improve access to health care for people with Long COVID
Directing the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to study the feasibility of incentivizing inpatient psychiatric hospitals to admit patients directly from community behavioral health centers
To create equitable approaches to public health
Relative to health education in women's correctional institutions
To ensure access to medical parole
To provide reproductive health care to incarcerated individuals
Relative to the practice of acupuncture
To ensure access to scalp and facial hair prostheses for children and adults with alopecia areata
Prohibiting PBMs from discriminating against hospitals and patients participating in the 340B drug discount program
To protect 340B providers
Ensuring access to specialty medications
To ensure affordable prescription medications through accountability standards
Prohibiting discrimination against 340b drug discount program participants
To help patients and reduce health care costs by ensuring patient adherence to medications
Relative to prescription drug pricing
To ensure access to prescription medication and community pharmacies
Relative to prescription medication re-authorization
To enact the pharmacy benefit manager compensation reform
Relative to pharmacy benefit managers reimbursements to pharmacies in the Commonwealth
Relative to patient financial protection
Protecting 340B contract pharmacies
To enact pharmacy benefit manager duties
To enact pharmacy benefit manager duties
Establishing guardians as providers of medical care to support the rights of incapacitated persons
Relative to cueing and supervision in the PCA program
Relative to persons with developmental disabilities
Relative to mandatory coverage for certain health screenings for firefighters
Relative to health insurance for surviving spouses
Relative to determination of need of new technology
Further defining eligibility for medical use marijuana
Establishing the hospital to home partnership program
Relative to assisted living and the frail elder waiver
Relative to providing dental care to senior citizens
Relative to cognitive rehabilitation for individuals with an acquired brain injury
Relative to consumer deductibles
Relative to telehealth parity for nutrition counseling
Relative to pharmacists as healthcare providers
Requiring reimbursement for the costs of providing competent interpreter services
To ensure access to prescription medications
To increase access to nurse-midwifery services
To reduce inequities in access to medical procedures
Assuring prompt access to health care
Relative to protecting public health and reducing health care costs
Relative to diabetes prevention
Relative to patient assessment and notification prior to prescribing certain medications
Regulating surgical assistants
Boosting flu prevention for seniors
Relative to proper classification of health care workers during a public health emergency
Relative to end of life options
Relative to ensuring access to dental care for MassHealth recipients
To protect 340B providers in the MassHealth program
To increase reimbursement for low historic relative price hospitals
Establishing Medicare for All in Massachusetts
Relative to preventing discrimination against persons with disabilities in the provision of health care
Relative to maintenance of certification
Relative to stabilizing the Commonwealth’s nursing facilities
Increasing the personal needs allowance for long term care residents
To improve patient care through integrated electronic health records
Relative the use and impact of prior authorization for health care services
Relative to establishing a health safety net task force
Relative to personal care management hours
Relative to changing Mass Health estate recoup for people with disabilities beyond age 55
To improve continuity of care for MassHealth members with chronic conditions
To ensure MassHealth rate parity for behavioral health inpatient providers
Extend nursing home resident overnights with their family from 10 to 14
Relative to MassHealth
To extend enhanced Medicaid benefits to eligible hospitals
Relative to asset limits for MassHealth
To update medicaid resource limits for seniors
Ensuring equal access to medical treatments essential for people with a developmental disability, intellectual disability, or autism
To protect qualified medicare beneficiaries from improper billing
Regarding Medicare savings programs eligibility
Improving access to post acute services
To provide funding for the African Diaspora Mental Health Association's State-of-the-Art Clinic
To prevent medical debt by restoring health safety net eligibility levels
To address the financial sustainability of the Health Safety Net
Increasing access to MassHealth dental providers
Relative to MassHealth managed care pharmacy benefit reimbursement rates
Relative to family members serving as caregivers
Relative to a CHIA analysis of co-pays for mental and behavioral health services
Increasing access to ABA services by recognizing assistant level providers
To establish an exemption for personal vehicle value from the MassHealth asset limit
Relative to Medicare coverage of end-stage renal disease
Relative to applied behavioral analysis reimbursement rates
Establishing a state-wide drug repository program
Relative to state funding of certain nonprofits
Relative to access to psychiatric collaborative care
To ensure access to medical parole
To improve oral health for all Massachusetts residents
Relative to preventing overdose deaths and increasing access to treatment
To address conflicts of interest in the use of temporary nursing agencies at skilled nursing facilities
Relative to newborn screenings for congenital cytomegalovirus
Establishing peer-run respite centers throughout the Commonwealth
To provide more timely treatment of inpatient mental health care
Authorizing pharmacists to provide opioid use disorder treatment
Prioritizing patient access to care
Enabling trained school personnel to administer life saving epinephrine treatment
Relative to the board of registration in naturopathy
Safeguarding victims of illicit drink spiking
Relative to PFML for bone marrow and organ donation
To provide continuum of care for severe mental illness
To further define medical necessity determinations
Relative to dental insurance consumer protections
Relative to the use of virtual credit cards by dental insurance providers
Further defining eligibility for medical use marijuana
Establishing a bill of rights for people experiencing homelessness
Relative to direct primary care
Regarding consistent care for addiction rooted in evidence
Relative to newborn infant safe sleep practices
Relative to pharmacists as healthcare providers
Relative to health purchasing cooperatives
Resolve addressing EMS and health care services shortfalls in southeastern Massachusetts
Relative to the administration of anti-psychotic or other psychotropic substances to nursing home residents
Ensuring efficient and effective implementation of behavioral health reform
To increase enrollment in affordable health plan networks
Related to comprehensive clinical and extended support services
Expanding access to mental health services
To help patients and reduce healthcare costs by ensuring patient adherence to medications
Relative to the prescription monitoring program
To increase health insurer reporting transparency
Relative to acute hospital governance
To improve patient access to non-emergency medical transportation
To create intensive stabilization and treatment units within the Department of Mental Health
Relative to physician assistant interstate compact
Ensuring access to a resident representative in long-term care facilities
Assessing healthcare access
Providing for prompt health insurance benefits for municipal employees
To strengthen the control of contagious and infectious diseases in the Commonwealth
Relative to staffing at home health and hospice agencies
Providing safeguards for home healthcare workers
Establishing alternative models for behavioral health transport
Establishing a board of registration of licensed mental health counselors
Expanding loan repayment assistance for primary care physicians working in integrated primary and behavioral health care settings
Providing appropriate care for certain populations
Repealing the sunset date for drug stewardship
Relative to protective custody
Limiting out of pocket health expenses
Relative to unilateral contract changes
Expanding access to mental health services and strengthening risk assessment protocols
Relative to group insurance commission procurement
Providing for a medical exemption for manufacturer coupons
Ensuring access to medical records
Relative to the closing of hospital essential services
Relative to health equity and community health workers
To reduce the risks associated with allergic reactions
Increasing access to ABA services by recognizing assistant level providers
Relative to growing resources to optimize the utilization of group therapeutic care
Relative to emergency response and preparedness in the event of a surge in pediatric or adult hospitalizations
To strengthen the Commonwealth's strategic preparedness stockpiles
Enabling trained dental hygienists to administer dermal fillers and botox.
Establishing the program of all-inclusive care for the elderly.
Relative to office-based surgical centers
Creating parity for mental and behavioral health services
To transfer Bridgewater State Hospital from the Department of Corrections to the Department of Mental Health
Relative to gender-affirming hair removal treatment
To remove barriers to patient care
To promote increased access to patient care through equitable reimbursement
To address barriers to HIV prevention medication
Clarifying the wage act to protect hospital workers from being deprived of their wages
Providing continuity of care for mental health treatment
Relative to rehabilitation periods for those in addiction recovery
Relative to dual diagnosis treatment coverage
Relative to streamlining notice and disclosure
Preserving access to treatment for patients with serious mental illnesses
Improving access to community behavioral health centers
Relative to rate equity for community health centers
Relative to non-medical switching
To ensure access to epinephrine for minors
Expanding wheelchair warranty protections for consumers with disabilities
Relative to PANDAS/PANS
Enabling registered dental hygienists to administer nitrous oxide
Establishing a physical therapy licensure compact
Relative to Medicare coverage of end-stage renal disease
Regarding the pediatric palliative care program
Relative to the practice of acupuncture
To increase access to nurse-midwifery services
To advance health equity
Prohibiting surprise outside billing
Making technical changes to the Betsy Lehman Center for patient safety and medical error reduction enabling statute
To close the achievement gap by addressing disparities in children's vision
Relative to trans-inclusive health care access
Relative to access to health care
Relative to the sustainability of public health dental hygienists through adequate reimbursements
Relative to financial services contracts for dental benefits corporations
Further clarifying the delivery of health care
Promoting and enhancing the sustainability of birth centers and the midwifery workforce
Relative to PANDAS/PANS screening in medical/clinical settings
Relative to direct primary care
Relative to telehealth and digital equity for patients
To assess the current status of the merged market
To improve patient access to non-emergency medical transportation
To expand the doula workforce
To strengthen laws combatting human trafficking and protecting survivors of modern-day slavery
Ensuring transparency in the practice of dental leased networks
To protect the lives of student athletes; Freddy’s law
Relative to rate equity for community health centers
Relative to unilateral contract changes
Directing the division of insurance to regularly report on the performance of the merged non-group and small-group health insurance markets
Relative to allowing spouses to serve as paid caregivers
Relative to meeting human service demand by modernizing incentives for the direct care workforce
Clarifying mandatory overtime protections
Relative to supporting parents in recovery from substance use disorder and enhancing child welfare
To prohibit mandatory overtime
To ensure efficient and effective implementation of the Roadmap for Behavioral Health Reform
To prohibit mandatory overtime
To support behavioral health prevention for children
Clarifying mandatory overtime protections
Relative to reducing unnecessary delays in patient care
Relative to increasing consumer access to licensed rehabilitation counselors
Relative to small business health insurance incentives
Relative to the sustainability of public health dental hygienists through adequate reimbursements
Relative to nature as a prescription
Defining financial responsibility for uncollected co-pays, co-insurance and deductibles
Relative to requiring insurance providers cover a minimum of 30 days for in-patient substance abuse treatment
Expanding insurance coverage for hearing aids and related services
Relative to specialty medications and patient safety
Relative to step therapy and in vitro fertilization insurance coverage
Promoting healthcare access and affordability for patients
Relative to colon cancer screening
Redirecting excessive health insurer reserves to support health care safety net programs
Relative to consumer deductibles
Promoting consumer choice in health care
For supportive care for serious mental illness
Relative to ensuring treatment for genetic craniofacial conditions
Ensuring transparency in the practice of dental leased networks
Empowering health care consumers
Eliminating cost sharing for certain behavioral health services
Relative to special education health care costs
Relative to mental health providers
To facilitate timely access to quality health care by expanding access to patient navigation
Relative to IUD pain management coverage
Increasing access to acute hospital at home services
To ensure access to prescription medications
Relative to health insurance coverage notification
Relative to eliminating the PCP referral requirement for specialty gynecological care
Enhancing post-pregnancy mental health care
Providing insurance coverage for the medically necessary treatment of port-wine stains
Expanding health insurance access for state employees
Requiring health insurance coverage for scalp cooling systems
Relative to PANDAS/PANS screening in medical/clinical settings
To provide diabetes prevention program benefits for GIC insurees
Relative to local public housing authorities access to the dental and vision insurance plan managed by the group insurance commission
Relative to mandatory coverage for certain health screenings for firefighters
Relative to fetal opioid drug exposure
Relative to the reform of the personal care attendant system
Relative to medical records requests
Relative to physician workforce data collection
Relative to smoking cessation agents
Ensuring access to behavioral health services for children involved with state agencies
To increase the safety of individuals with disabilities relying on life-support equipment
Relative to LGBTQ+ health disparities
Relative to enhancing statewide hospital capacity coordination
Improving pediatric cancer research
Relative to facilitating the utilization of psychologists on the health care team
Providing for consumer access to and the right to practice complementary and alternative health care services
To reduce lung cancer deaths
Protecting public health and reducing health care costs
Building resilience and increasing access to mental health services
To establish a perinatal behavioral health care workforce trust fund
Establishing guardians as providers of medical care to support the rights of incapacitated persons
Relative to safe patient handling and mobility in certain health facilities
Connecting veterans with access to breakthrough treatments
Establishing a naloxone purchase trust fund
Measuring the impact of Long COVID in the Commonwealth
To restore integrity in the marketing of pharmaceutical products and medical devices
Relative to provider choice
Regulating surgical assistants
Relative to insurance coverage of mobile integrated health
Providing health insurance coverage for scalp and facial hair prostheses
Relative to modern family building
Relative to telehealth parity for nutrition counseling
Relative applied behavioral analysis reimbursement rates
Relative to life saving treatment
Relative to Massachusetts home care eligibility
Supporting individuals suffering with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and their families
Improving Hepatitis C screening
Relative to diabetes prevention
Relative to patient access to biomarker testing to provide appropriate therapy
Relative to cognitive rehabilitation for individuals with an acquired brain injury
Lowering health care prices for patients
To extend enhanced Medicaid benefits to eligible hospitals
Regarding Medicare savings programs eligibility
To define modest meals and refreshments in prescriber education settings
To stabilize adult day health services
Ensuring temporary nursing service agency quality
To improve continuity of care for MassHealth members with chronic conditions
Relative to funding for nursing home staffing
Ensuring equal access to medical treatments essential for people with a developmental disability, intellectual disability, or autism
To promote an enhanced care worker minimum wage
Relative to coverage for chronic illness
Relative to hospital price transparency
Relative to the primary care workforce development and loan repayment grant program at community health centers
Ensuring access and continuity of care to specialist and hospital services for dually eligible individuals
Relative to non-opioid options for chronic pain
Relative to rapid whole genome sequencing
To improve health care cost accountability
To ensure health care as a right
Increasing access to MassHealth dental providers
Relative to spouses as caregivers
Relative to fiduciary responsibility
Relative to association health plans
To update Medicaid resource limits for seniors
To strengthen the management of the health care connector
Ensuring temporary nursing service agency quality
Preserving and protecting public health
To protect 340B providers in the Medicaid program
Improving access to post acute services
Relative to asset limits for MassHealth
To protect qualified medicare beneficiaries from improper billing
Relative to family members serving as caregivers
To study the prevalence and cause of long term acute hospital stays
To prohibit inappropriate use of the health care cost growth benchmark
To address the financial sustainability of the Health Safety Net
Establishing a healthcare insurance premium payment pool for working families
Relative to hospital closures and health planning
Relative to insurer responsibility to the operating budgets of health care oversight entities
To support equal access to community care for elders and persons with disabilities
Limiting excessive growth in the operating budgets of health care oversight agencies
Strengthening mental health centers
Relative to premium impact statements
To ensure timely health care cost reporting and protecting not-for-profit patient care
To enhance analysis of state health mandates and costs
Relative to patient centered access to behavioral health services in accountable care organizations
Relating to covered entity reporting to increase accountability to safeguard benefit for vulnerable patients
Expanding the moral obligation bond program to acute care hospitals
Establishing medicare for all in Massachusetts
Preventing medical debt by restoring health safety net eligibility levels
To alleviate skyrocketing consumer health care costs
Providing Medicaid coverage for tobacco cessation programs
To protect Norwood healthcare access
Relative to hospital profit and fairness
Establishing a public health option
Relative to health care non-discrimination
Relative to nursing career pathways in long term care
To increase access to healthcare for ostomy patients
Relative to therapeutic psilocybin treatment centers
Relative to opioid use disorder treatment and rehabilitation coverage
Relative to the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder
Relative to health insurance coverage for hearing aids
Relative to insulin access
To increase enrollment in affordable health plan networks
Promoting consumer choice in health care
To address barriers to HIV prevention medication
To increase enrollment in affordable health plan networks
Relative to ensuring access to neurological disorder screenings for firefighters
Relating to patient choice in dispensing of clinician-administered drugs
Relative to IUD pain management coverage
Requiring automated external defibrillators at sporting events
To facilitate timely access to quality health care by expanding access to patient navigation
Updating the mandated benefit review process
Relative to increasing consumer access to licensed rehabilitation counselors
Concerning the safety of autistic and alzheimer individuals
To redirect excessive health insurer reserves to support health care safety net programs
Relative to health savings accounts
Providing insurance coverage for biennial echocardiograms for persons under the age of 18
Establishing a division of health insurance
To further enhance rate review examinations conducted by the health care access bureau within the division of insurance
Relative to epinephrine injectors
To improve child and adolescent mental health services
Providing for certain health insurance coverage
Relative to colon cancer screening
To strengthen the control of contagious and infectious diseases in the Commonwealth
To improve access and care coordination for people with pain
Relative to external reviews and patient protection
Relative to capping the price of epinephrine
Relative to the use of virtual credit cards by dental insurance providers
To further define medical necessity determinations
Related to comprehensive clinical and extended support services
Expanding access to mental health services
For supportive care for serious mental illness
Enhancing post-pregnancy mental health care
Preserving access to treatment for patients with serious mental illnesses
To support behavioral health prevention for children
Improving access to community behavioral health centers
Regarding Title XIX reimbursements for state colleges and universities
To improve oral health for all Massachusetts residents
To protect Massachusetts public health from PFAS
Relative to supported decision-making agreements for certain adults
Relative to health equity and community health workers
Establishing senior psychologist licensure
Relative to the small necessities leave act
Relative to medical health and fitness facilities
To enforce laws protecting worksite safety
To reduce inequities in access to hearing aids
Toxic-Free Medical Devices Act of 2025
Relative to modernizing the regulation of clinical laboratories
Improving access to infertility treatment
To improve Massachusetts home care.
To improve care and prepare for the new era of Alzheimer’s and dementia
Empowering patients and entrepreneurs with real transparency on cost
Establishing a community health center nurse practitioner residency program
Relative to nursing career pathways in long term care
Relative to transparency of consumer health insurance rights
Building resilience and increasing access to mental health services
Protecting the interests of patients in the event of the sale, relocation or closure of certain physician practices
Relative to the provision and administration of bronchodilators, spacers, and nebulizers in schools
To increase access to disposable menstrual products
Relative to culturally competent and effective health care
Relative to increasing access to epinephrine
Expanding access to hygiene products
Relative to patient access to information regarding breast reconstructive surgery
Relative to modern family building
Improving access to infertility treatment
To improve outcomes for persons with limb loss and limb difference
Relative to non-medical switching
Updating terminology and investigative practices related to the protection of persons with disabilities
Regarding cervical cancer and women's preventative health
Relative to insurance coverage for doula services
Relative to patient access to biomarker testing to provide appropriate therapy
Ensuring access to full spectrum pregnancy care
Relative to transparency of consumer health insurance rights
Improving medical decision making
To improve care and prepare for the new era of Alzheimer’s and dementia
To reduce incidence and death from pancreatic cancer
To strengthen our public health infrastructure to address Alzheimer’s and all dementia
Requiring automatic external defibrillator devices in health clubs
Clarifying rate setting processes for home health and home care services
Relative to an individual Medicare marketplace option
Relative to defining invasive surgical procedures
Relative to updating the licensure of optometrists
Relative to the definition of podiatry
Relative to certified medication aides
Relative to end of life options
Relative to genetic counselors
Establishing the hospital to home partnership program
Relative to assisted living and the frail elder waiver
Relative to culturally competent and effective health care
Requiring mental health parity for disability policies
To improve sickle cell care
Providing living organ donor protections
Ensuring access to full spectrum pregnancy care
To improve outcomes for those with limb loss and limb difference
Improving access to breast pumps
Increasing the personal care allowance for long term care residents
Increasing the personal needs allowance for long term care residents
Ensuring equitable health coverage for children
To increase access to disposable menstrual products
Strengthening health care protections in the Commonwealth
Proposal for a legislative amendment to the Constitution for a Constitutional right to health care
Authorizing a pilot for the use of psychedelics in licensed treatment facilities
Relative to reserving beds in nursing homes during certain leaves of absence
To update postural screenings in schools
Relative to reducing administrative burden
Relative to preventing discrimination against persons with disabilities in the provision of health care
Promoting continuity of health coverage for children
To protect MassHealth applicants facing undue hardship
Clarifying rate setting processes for home health and home care services
Relative to MassHealth reimbursement for schools
Relative to promoting healthcare access and affordability for patients
To strengthen supportive housing and reduce healthcare costs for low-income seniors
Advancing health care research and decision-making centered on patients and people with disabilities
To promote transparency and prevent price gouging of pharmaceutical drug prices
To ensure uniform and transparent reporting of medical debt data
Resolve relative to pharmacy deserts
To address medical debt through hospital financial assistance reform
Enhancing health care market oversight and pharmaceutical access
Relative to primary care for you
To strengthen health spending accountability processes within the health policy commission and the center for health information and analysis
Addressing unfair practices of private equity in health care
To promote transparency in prescription drug prices
To promote graduate medical education
To promote primary care through Medicaid graduate medical education funding
Relative to essential services
To address health care costs through the cost benchmark and rate review processes
Resolve establishing a report to analyze long hospital stays
Relative to the operating budgets of health care oversight agencies
Addressing unfair business practices in health care
Updating the health care cost growth benchmark and associated market oversight activities
Strengthening oversight of health care facility spending
Relative to hospital profit and fairness
To improve health care cost accountability
Relative to transparency of hospital and health system finances
Relative to pharmacy deserts
Making technical changes to the Betsy Lehman Center for patient safety and medical error reduction enabling statute
Expanding the moral obligation bond program to acute care hospitals
Relative to insurer responsibility to the operating budgets of health care oversight entities
To ensure uniform and transparent reporting of medical debt data
Establishing a community health center nurse practitioner residency program
Strengthening mental health centers
To promote graduate medical education
To address medical debt through hospital financial assistance reform
Relative to the primary care workforce development and loan repayment grant program at community health centers
Relative to Massachusetts primary care for you
Relative to healthcare industry recruitment and education for the 21st Century
Relative to routine childhood immunizations
To develop a coordinated stroke care system
Protecting Norwood healthcare access
To protect Norwood healthcare access
To protect Norwood healthcare access
Relative to medical health and fitness facilities
Relative to reducing administrative burden
To provide more timely treatment of inpatient mental health care
Building resiliency in communities through mental health
Relative to cancer patient access to biomarker testing to provide appropriate therapy
Establishing a child and adolescent behavioral health implementation coordinating council
Requiring health care facilities to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence
Requiring health care employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence
To promote rehabilitation including guaranteed health, treatment, and safety for incarcerated LGBTQI+ People
To establish the Massachusetts incarcerated individual bone marrow and organ donation program
Preventing overdoses in the commonwealth
Requiring health care employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence
Improving medical decision making
Relative to EMT certification of veterans and military medics
To improve outcomes for individuals with Parkinson’s disease
Relative to PANDAS/PANS screening in medical/clinical settings
To improve sickle cell care
To improve outcomes for persons with limb loss and limb difference
To expand the doula workforce
Relative to insurance coverage for doula services
Relative to end of life options
Mandating access to cancer screenings for firefighters through health care benefits plans or programs provided by the public employer
Relative to preceptorship programs for students of chiropractic
Relative to patient access to information regarding breast reconstructive surgery
Relative to the Massachusetts maternal mortality and morbidity review committee
To protect Massachusetts public health from PFAS
Expediting the diagnosis and treatment of certain infections
Requiring automatic external defibrillator devices in health clubs
To improve infection control within long-term care facilities
Relative to baseline concussion testing for student athletes
Relative to removing barriers to care for physician assistants
Relative to anesthesiologist assistants
Relative to the health care workforce
Improving healthcare delivery for underserved residents of the commonwealth
To strengthen our public health infrastructure to address Alzheimer’s and all dementia.
To improve sickle cell care
Relative to recovery coach licensure
Relative to culturally competent and effective health care
Regarding consistent care for addiction rooted in evidence
Transferring Bridgewater State Hospital from the Department of Correction to the Department of Mental Health
Relative to dual diagnosis treatment coverage
Requiring mental health parity for disability policies
Increasing access to maternal postpartum home visiting services
Improving access to breast pumps
Relative to human donor milk coverage
For supportive care for serious mental illness
To increase access to nurse-midwifery services
Relative to preventing overdose deaths and increasing access to treatment
Relative to preserving fertility
To improve child and adolescent mental health services
Providing for certain health insurance coverage
Relative to ensuring treatment for genetic craniofacial conditions
Relative to LGBTQ family building
Relative to transparency of consumer health insurance rights
Relative to benzodiazepines and non-benzodiazepine hypnotics
Ensuring access to full spectrum pregnancy care
Providing living organ donor protections
Relative to fair and equitable compensation for medical services
Regarding cervical cancer and women's preventative health
Relative to PANDAS/PANS
Ensuring access to addiction services
To educate on prescription opioids
Relative to providing dental care to senior citizens
To improve Alzheimer's’ and dementia care in senior care options programs
To expand access for those living with younger onset Alzheimer’s, dementia and other disabilities
Relative to access to care for serious mental illness
Relative to removing barriers to non-opioid pain management
Relative to a medical marijuana pilot program
Relative to data transparency in the cannabis industry
Relative to vertical integration of medical marijuana businesses
Relative to substance exposed newborns
Improving Hepatitis C screening
Relative to diabetes prevention
Ensuring access to behavioral health services for children involved with state agencies
Relative to newborn screenings for congenital cytomegalovirus
To enhance hospital care for those with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities
To increase the safety of individuals with disabilities relying on life-support equipment
To update postural screenings in schools
Modernizing childhood lead poisoning prevention
Relative to caregiver authorization affidavits
Relative to source plasma donation centers
To improve access to breastfeeding care
Relative to patient assessment and notification prior to prescribing certain medications
Protecting children from harmful diet pills and muscle-building supplements
Relative to certified medication aides
Relative to acupuncture detoxification specialists
Prohibiting nonconsensual intimate examinations of anesthetized or unconscious patients
To close the achievement gap by addressing disparities in children's vision
Regarding the pediatric palliative care program
Alleviating the burden of medical debt for patients and families
To provide increased access to hearing aids
Expanding wheelchair warranty protections for consumers with disabilities
Relative to reserving beds in nursing homes during certain leaves of absence
Relative to expanding the availability of personal care homes for older adults
Relative to Massachusetts home care eligibility
Increasing the personal care allowance for long term care residents
To increase awareness of community based PACE programs for older adults
Relative to intensive case management for clinically complex older adults
To improve Massachusetts home care
Relative to disclosing continuing care retirement community entrance fees
Regulating certain insurance benefits for elected officials in the town of Blackstone
Relative to accelerating improvements to the local and regional public health system to address disparities in the delivery of public health services
Expanding access to the certified nurses’ aides certification process
Establishing testing protocol and care for victims of date rape drugs
Relative to safe patient handling and mobility in certain health facilities
Relative to clinical laboratories
Further defining eligibility for medical use marijuana
Establishing a dentist diversion program
To protect medically fragile children
Relative to MassHealth reimbursement for schools
To advance health equity
Relative to the fair treatment of life estates in MassHealth eligibility
To ensure uniform and transparent reporting of medical debt data
Regarding Medicare savings programs eligibility
Clarifying rate setting processes for home health and home care services
To ensure equitable health coverage for children
Relative to nurse licensure compact in Massachusetts
Relative to genetic counselors
To increase access to blood donation
Relative to applied behavioral analysis therapy
Relative to non-opioid alternatives in pain treatment
Relative to overdose mapping
To remove medical and health service fees for incarcerated people
To provide reproductive health care to incarcerated individuals
Relative to the postpartum treatment of women in correctional facilities
To ensure compliance with the anti-shackling law for pregnant incarcerated women
Relative to health insurance and incarcerated individuals
Relative to health education in women's correctional institutions
To ensure access to medical parole
Relative to soldiers' home eligibility for certain national guard members
Establishing senior psychologist licensure
Concerning equitable allocation of recovery proceeds for subrogation claims
Establishing peer-run respite centers throughout the Commonwealth
To remove administrative barriers to behavioral health services
Establishing peer-run respite centers throughout the Commonwealth
Relative to applied behavioral health clinic rates
Relative to opioid use disorder treatment and rehabilitation coverage
Expanding access to mental health services
To ensure access to prescription medications
Relative to telehealth and digital equity for patients
To enact pharmacy benefit manager duties
Providing access to full spectrum addiction treatment services
Relative to prescription drug pricing
To prohibit cost sharing for opioid antagonists
Relative to pharmacists as healthcare providers
Relative to specialty medications and patient safety
Assuring prompt access to health care
Relative to dual diagnosis treatment coverage
Removing barriers to behavioral health services
Relative to ensuring treatment for genetic craniofacial conditions
Relative to community behavioral health centers
Preventing inappropriate denials by insurers for medically necessary services
Relative to the practice of acupuncture
To help patients and reduce health care costs by ensuring patient adherence to medications
Expanding coverage of dental procedures
Promoting consumer choice in health care
To increase enrollment in affordable health plan networks
Authorizing Massachusetts entry into the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
Relative to timely physician licensure
To strengthen the direct care and dementia workforce
To improve access to family physicians
Establishing a physical therapy licensure compact
Allowing spouses to serve as caregivers
To expand equitable perinatal mental health services
Establishing the psychology interjurisdictional compact
To expand equitable perinatal mental health services
Clarifying mandatory overtime protections
Relative to worker compensation protections for certified medical cannabis patients and their caregivers
Clarifying the wage act to protect hospital workers from being deprived of their wages
Relative to professional employer organizations
To promote the recruitment and retention of hospital workers
Relative to spouses as caregivers
Promoting workforce development and provider retention at community health centers
Relative to family members serving as caregivers
Relative to maintaining independent authority over nursing licensure in the commonwealth
Concerning the legal use of the plant medicine known as psilocybin for therapeutic, spiritual, and medicinal purposes
Relative to health insurance for surviving spouses
Relative to public hearings of the Group Insurance Commission
Relative to mandatory coverage for certain health screenings for firefighters
Requiring automated external defibrillators at sporting events
Relative to breast cancer equity and early detection
Establishing an LGBTQI long-term care facility bill of rights
Relative to assisted living and basic health services
Providing insurance coverage for biennial echocardiogram and concussion analysis for persons under the age of 18
Relative to epinephrine injectors
Relative to emergency insulin access
Relative to behavioral health and nutrition counseling
Relative to telehealth parity for nutrition counseling
Providing health insurance coverage for scalp and facial hair prosthesis
Relative to breast cancer equity and early detection
To further define medical necessity determinations
Ensuring support groups are part of the pathway of care following the annual mental health wellness exam
To address barriers to HIV prevention medication
Ensuring the fair and appropriate distribution of vaccines during a public health emergency
Relative to public health volunteer responders
Reducing barriers to telehealth care
Providing for consumer access to and the right to practice complementary and alternative health care services
Connecting veterans with access to breakthrough treatments
Creating an obesity task force
To improve health care workforce development through graduate nursing practice
Relative to medical physics
Relative to acute hospital governance
Relative to updating the licensure of optometrists
Relative to dental hygienist reciprocal licensure
To preserve special needs trusts for disabled seniors
To improve the health insurance prior authorization process
To promote primary care through Medicaid graduate medical education funding
Relative to creating intensive stabilization and treatment units within the Department of Mental Health
Relative to non-opioid alternatives in pain treatment
Relative to patient access to biomarker testing to provide appropriate therapy
Building resiliency in communities through mental health
Relative to the well-being of law enforcement officers after involvement in a critical incident
Promoting access to midwifery care and out-of-hospital birth options
To modernize the Massachusetts insurer’s insolvency fund
To increase access to nurse-midwifery services
Establishing guardians as providers of medical care to support the rights of incapacitated persons
To improve oral health for all Massachusetts residents.
Relative to emergency medical services oversight.
Honoring, empowering, and recognizing our servicemembers and veterans
Ensuring access to full spectrum pregnancy care
Relating to patient cost, benefit and coverage information, choice, and price transparency
Strengthening prescription drug safety and drug stewardship
To ensure access to prescription medications
Relative to insurance coverage of mobile integrated health
Relative to the practice of acupuncture
Relative to creating a pilot program to transfer high acuity behavioral health and dual diagnosis patients away from overcrowded emergency departments
Providing health insurance coverage for scalp and facial hair prostheses
Relative to fetal opioid drug exposure
Relative to ambulance service reimbursement
Providing continuity of care for mental health treatment
Relative to the sustainability of public health dental hygienists through adequate reimbursements
Ensuring support groups are part of the pathway of care following the annual mental health wellness exam
To prevent inappropriate denials by insurers for medically necessary services
To ensure dependent health coverage for adults with disabilities
Relative to increasing consumer access to licensed rehabilitation counselors
Providing access to full spectrum addiction treatment services
Relative to telehealth and digital equity for patients
Relative to pediatric care appointments
To help patients and reduce healthcare costs by ensuring patient adherence to medications
To reduce the cost of pharmacy benefits
Relative to the care and treatment of patients with mitochondrial disease
Relative to specialty medications and patient safety
Expanding health insurance access for state employees
To increase access to lactation care and services
Prohibiting discrimination against 340b drug discount program participants
To ensure access to epinephrine for minors
Enhancing post-pregnancy mental health care
To prohibit cost sharing for opioid antagonists
Relative to insurance coverage for doula services
Reining in premiums through stronger rate review
Relative to insurance coverage of mobile integrated health
Ensuring access to specialty medications
Relative to promoting healthcare access and affordability for patients
Relative to pediatric care appointments
Relative to cognitive rehabilitation for individuals with an acquired brain injury
Prohibiting self-dealing by pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacies under common ownership
Relative to out-of-network billing
Relative to rehabilitation periods for those in addiction recovery
Addressing duplicative notifications of UR approvals (administrative simplification)
Relative to telehealth parity for nutrition counseling
Relative to insurance companies
Requiring prospective payment system methodology for reimbursement to community health centers
Relative to step therapy and in vitro fertilization insurance coverage
Empowering health care consumers
Relative to group insurance commission procurement
Relative to consumer deductibles
Related to health insurance benefits for municipal employees
Limiting out of pocket health expenses
Relative to mental health providers
Relative to increasing consumer access to licensed rehabilitation counselors
Mandating access to cancer screenings for firefighters through health care benefits plans or programs provided by the public employer
Concerning the safety of autistic and alzheimer individuals
Relative to increasing consumer access to licensed rehabilitation counselors
Relative to cognitive rehabilitation for individuals with an acquired brain injury
Empowering health care consumers
Relative to mental health providers
Relative to ambulance service reimbursement
To promote cancer screenings for firefighters
Relative to discharge from substance use disorder treatment
To provide diabetes prevention program benefits for GIC insurees
To prohibit mandatory overtime
Relative to adding efficiency to paid family and medical leave
Relative to the small necessities leave act
Relative to emergency response and preparedness in the event of a surge in pediatric or adult hospitalizations
Relative to consumer deductibles
Relative to non-medical switching
Relative to costs for treatment and management of diabetes
Relative to colon cancer screening
To protect health care consumers from surprise billing
To reduce co-pays for people with chronic conditions
Relative to telehealth and digital equity for patients
Requiring reimbursement for the costs of providing competent interpreter services
To ensure prescription drug cost transparency and affordability
Providing continuity of care for mental health treatment
Relative to promoting healthcare access and affordability for patients
Prohibiting discrimination against 340b drug discount program participants
To update mental health parity
Relative to the safety of autistic and alzheimer individuals
To enact the pharmacy benefit manager compensation reform
Reining in premiums through stronger rate review
Requiring prospective payment system methodology for reimbursement to community health centers
Relating to patient cost, benefit and coverage information, choice, and price transparency
Relative to the reform of the personal care attendant system
Relative to smoking cessation agents
Relative to collaborative drug therapy management optimization
Regulating surgical assistants
To establish a pilot program for specialty pharmacy in urology
Relative to safer treatment for pain
Establishing a bill of rights for individuals experiencing homelessness
Relative to the definition of podiatry
Relative to facilitating the utilization of psychologists on the health care team
Relative to videotaping, audiotaping and photographing persons receiving medical treatment
To reduce incidence and death from pancreatic cancer
Relative to parental notification about student health evaluations
Resolve providing for an investigation and study by a special commission relative to Long COVID related needs in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Relative to continuation of health insurance in the case of plant closings
Relative to cosmetic labeling
Authorizing a 90-day supply of medically necessary testosterone therapy medication
Relative to protecting public health and reducing health care costs
Relative to the prescription monitoring program
Relative to changing Mass Health estate recoup for people with disabilities beyond age 55
Specifying an electronic system to ensure that sales of certain products containing pseudoephedrine (PSE) do not exceed limits established under federal law
To protect life-saving electronic health records from reckless corporate greed and corruption
Relative to MassHealth
Relative to using Medicaid for violence prevention and intervention
Expanding affordable coverage through ConnectorCare
Providing affordable care through out-of-pocket assistance
Requiring equitable access to behavioral health services for MassHealth consumers
To establish the family caregiver tax credit
Relative to maintenance of certification
Relative to the sustainability of high public payer community hospitals
Establishing a healthcare insurance premium payment pool for working families
To incentivize high-value care
Relative to medical records requests
Relative to association health plans
To alleviate skyrocketing consumer health care costs
Relative to transfer of assets by MassHealth members
To reduce racial and ethnic health disparities through commercial rate equity for safety net hospitals
Limiting facility fees
To extend enhanced Medicaid benefits to eligible hospitals
Administering national standards to Medicaid medical necessity reviews
Providing Medicaid coverage for tobacco cessation programs
To ensure effective health care as a right
To address the financial sustainability of the Health Safety Net
To promote an enhanced care worker minimum wage
Relative to an individual Medicare marketplace option
To stabilize adult day health services
Ensuring prompt access to health care
Relative to community behavioral health centers
Promoting consumer choice in health care
Enhancing the market review process
Updating high-cost hospital and Health Policy Commission system accountability
Regarding shared responsibility for health care oversight agencies
Updating high-cost hospitals and Health Policy Commission system accountability
Relative to the operating budgets of health care oversight agencies
Ensuring temporary nursing service agency quality
Making technical changes to the Betsy Lehman Center for patient safety and medical error reduction enabling statute
Relative to hospital profit transparency and fairness
To prohibit inappropriate use of the health care cost growth benchmark
Relative to preserving fertility
Relative to applied behavioral analysis therapy
To increase health insurance affordability for small business
Relative to emergency insulin access
To address barriers to HIV prevention medication
Relative to LGBTQ health equity
Ensuring access to a resident representative in long-term care facilities
To promote public health through the prevention and wellness trust fund
Supporting access to training on reproductive and gender-affirming care
To restore integrity in the marketing of pharmaceutical products and medical devices
Relative to the board of registration in naturopathy
To prevent undue influence on prescriber behavior
To create equitable approaches to public health
Establishing a low vision registry
Relative to modernizing the regulation of clinical laboratories
Improving child eye care
Ensuring access to addiction services
Relative to breast cancer equity and early detection
Relative to PANDAS/PANS
Relative to fair and equitable compensation for medical services
Relative to breast cancer screening and early detection
Relative to removing barriers to non-opioid pain management
Relative to human donor milk coverage
To educate on prescription opioids
Relative to access to care for serious mental illness
Providing coverage for hearing aids
Regarding consistent care for addiction rooted in evidence
Relative to breast cancer screening and early detection
To increase access to blood donation
Relative to hospital bad debts, claim denials and prompt payments
Relative to benzodiazepines and non-benzodiazepine hypnotics
Requiring mental health parity for disability policies
Relative to ensuring treatment for genetic craniofacial conditions
Increasing access to postpartum home visiting services
To enhance hospital care for those with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities
Improving access to breast pumps
For supportive care for serious mental illness
Relative to transparency of consumer health insurance rights
To support equal access to community care for elders and persons with disabilities
To improve quality and oversight of long-term care
Establishing a prescription drug rebate program for seniors
Relative to pharmaceutical access, costs and transparency
To promote transparency and prevent price gouging of pharmaceutical drug prices
Relative to promoting comprehensive transparency in the pharmaceutical industry
To define modest meals and refreshments in prescriber education settings
Relative to pharmacy benefit managers reimbursements to pharmacies in the Commonwealth
To protect medically fragile children
To bring down the cost of prescription drugs
Relative to infection control in nursing facilities
To ensure equitable health coverage for children
Relative to drug prices paid by carriers