Tufts Health Plan will soon begin giving pharmacy rebates directly to its members, saying it is the first such health care insurer to do so in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts has made health care more accessible and affordable, but still needs to make it easier and less costly for the smallest businesses to offer coverage to employees.
Focusing on the cost of something as critical as health care may feel unseemly, but cost matters, especially in this age of high-deductible health plans and strained state budgets.
An increasing amount of primary care is being provided by agencies set up specifically with low-income and marginalized people in mind: federally qualified community health centers.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Monday that the initiative petition seeking to impose limits on the number of patients a nurse can be assigned to care for at a time can go to voters on the November ballot.