Sponsored by: Rep. Marjorie Decker, Sen. Adam Gomez

The bill supports reimbursement parity for all telehealth services, expands access to the full range of telehealth services, and prohibits insurers from imposing prior authorization requirements on medically necessary telehealth visits that would not apply to in-person visits.  

Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Donahue, Sen. Patrick O’Connor

Mandating Hospital at Home coverage for commercial plans would enable more hospitals across the commonwealth to offer and expand these valuable services, ultimately improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs.  

Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Hunt, Sen. Paul Feeney

This bill works to address growing EMS challenges by ensuring insurance prior authorization for patient transportation is valid for three business days to take into account any transport delays, while ensuring that EMS providers are adequately reimbursed by MassHealth for non-emergency medical transportation for behavioral health, dialysis, and post-acute care transportation.  

Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Finn, Sen. Bill Driscoll

This legislation would disallow public and private health plans from refusing to cover healthcare services on the basis that they were delivered by a state-approved mobile integrated health (MIH) program, requires that said services be covered to the same extent as they would have had they been provided in a healthcare facility, and would lift application and registration fees for MIH programs that are focused on delivering behavioral health services.