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Municipal programs and paramedics pitch mobile integrated health bill to cut ED visits and costs
Summary
Town emergency‑medical leaders, UMass Memorial and other mobile integrated health (MIH) proponents asked the committee to require insurers to reimburse home‑visit MIH services, arguing the programs reduce emergency department visits, rehospitalizations and municipal EMS burden.
Fire chiefs, emergency physicians and MIH program directors asked the Joint Committee on Financial Services to advance legislation to make insurer reimbursement for mobile integrated health services routine and sustainable.
Chief Fred Freeman of Hanover described a municipally based MIH program that teams paramedics with visiting‑nurse services and…
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