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