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Issues surrounding the three-part mission of clinical care, research and education.

10.01.2018  | HPC on BID-Lahey Merger: AG Review Needed
The HPC has released its final report on the proposed large merger of hospitals and physician practices that would be known as Beth Israel Lahey Health.
10.01.2018  | MGH to Lead Partnership Developing Disaster Response System
Massachusetts General Hospital is just one of two hospitals nationwide to receive an important federal grant to develop a regional plan for delivering medical care during an emergency.
09.10.2018  | Hospitals File Suit to Halt 340B Cuts
AHA and other hospital interests filed suit in U.S. District Court to stop a nearly 30% reduction in Medicare payments to hospitals for purchase of outpatient drugs under the 340B program.
08.06.2018  | State Report Shows Hospitals are Skating on Thin Ice
The state has released Massachusetts hospital financial performance data for all of 2017 and the picture is not at all rosy.
07.23.2018  | HPC Says BID-Lahey Merger May Be Costly
The Health Policy Commission has weighed in on another hospital/health system merger.
07.16.2018  | HPC Insight into BID-Lahey Merger Due this Week
The HPC is expected to vote Wednesday on the preliminary Cost & Market Impact Review relating to the BID-Lahey merger.
03.12.2018  | Merger Takes Big Step to Fulfillment
The deal involving Lahey Health, the Beth Israel Deaconess system, and other entities received a favorable report from DPH.
02.19.2018  | Boston Children’s Fenwick Endorses Accelerating Access Bill
A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last week would allow providersto be screened and enrolled quickly in the Medicaid program.
02.19.2018  | Report: 10% of Mass. Households Face Food Insecurity
A new study shows that the cost of hunger and food insecurity in Massachusetts totals $2.4 billion a year.
01.29.2018  | Partners Deal in Rhode Island Takes Next Step
Partners HealthCare and Care New England announced they have entered into a “definitive agreement”.
01.08.2018  | HPC Refers Partners-Mass Eye and Ear Merger to AG
The Health Policy Commission (HPC) last week issued its final review of the proposed merger between Partners HealthCare and Massachusetts Eye and Ear.
12.18.2017  | HPC to Review Multi-Hospital Merger
The deal involving Lahey Health, the Beth Israel Deaconess system, and other entities will get a full cost and market impact review from the HPC.
11.13.2017  | State Senate’s New Reform Bill Raises Cautions
The healthcare “cost-containment and reform” bill that the Massachusetts Senate passed at midnight last Thursday offer some positive steps forward, but also areas of concern.
11.13.2017  | State Senate’s New Reform Bill Raises Cautions
The healthcare “cost-containment and reform” bill that the Massachusetts Senate passed at midnight last Thursday offer some positive steps forward, but also areas of concern.
11.06.2017  | HPC Casts Cold Eye, Preliminarily, on Partners, MEEI Merger
The Health Policy Commission’s (HPC’s) preliminary Cost and Market Impact Review (CMIR), on the merger between Partners HealthCare and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and its Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates physician organization was re
08.21.2017  | Final Contracts Okayed for Sweeping MassHealth ACO Program
On Wednesday contracts for the MassHealth Accountable Care Organization (ACO) program were finalized between the state and 17 ACOs. The massive shift of the MassHealth program from fee-for-service to the ACO model is the most sweeping change to the M
07.17.2017  | Mega Deal: BIDMC, Lahey, Mount Auburn, Anna Jacques, The Baptist
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Lahey Health, along with New England Baptist, Mount Auburn, and Anna Jacques hospitals this week inked a formal agreement to create a new healthcare system.
07.17.2017  | Tufts Medical Center Says No to MNA’s Unreasonable Demands
Union nurses at Tufts Medical Center left their patients’ bedsides on Wednesday to strike.
07.10.2017  | HPC to Review Partners--Mass. Eye & Ear Merger
The Health Policy Commission announced on Friday that it would conduct a comprehensive Cost and Market Impact Review on the proposed merger of Partners HealthCare and Massachusetts Eye & Ear.
02.19.2017  | Partners-Mass Eye & Ear Deal Approved
Partners HealthCare and Mass. Eye and Ear received the final state approval needed for the merger plan they announced in Jan. 2017.

Resources

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