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Bill would codify MassHealth rate parity for inpatient behavioral-health providers, backers say
Summary
Supporters of H1407 told the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing the bill is intended to put MassHealth administrative policy requiring parity between managed-care and fee-for-service rates into statute to protect inpatient behavioral health access and provider sustainability.
Representatives of behavioral-health hospitals and members of the legislature asked the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing to advance H1407, a bill intended to enshrine MassHealth's administrative policy requiring rate parity for inpatient behavioral-health services between managed-care organizations and MassHealth fee-for-service into statute.
Representative Jeff Scanlon introduced the bill and told the committee that parity is currently enforced through…
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