Health Care

Stakeholders voiced support and suggested changes before state lawmakers this week for proposed regulations meant to tighten oversight of Massachusetts compounding pharmacies.

Dan McHale, senior director of state government finance and policy at the Massachusetts Hospitals Association (MHA), voiced opposition last week to a measure to shift the cost of funding the state Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) entirely onto insurers and providers.

HealthAlliance Hospital in Leominster, which is a member of Worcester-based UMass Memorial Health Care, scored the highest safety rating in the state in Consumer Reports' ranking released this month.

The Massachusetts Hospitals Association (MHA) has asked the Massachusetts Legislature to direct MassHealth to use what it called a “more equitable system” for issuing penalties against hospitals for patient readmission rates.

Concord-based Emerson Hospital will benefit from a $2.5 million lease issued by MassDevelopment on its behalf, for the purpose of investing in new equipment , MassDevelopment announced Monday.

Hospitals or health insurance providers that plan to merge, acquire or affiliate with another health care system...

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Fallon Total Care, the demonstration health services program being launched by Fallon Community Health Plan (FCHP) and...

In 2009, Athol Memorial Hospital announced it was working on an affiliation deal with Vanguard Heath Systems....

Massachusetts Health Care Reform 2.0, also called Chapter 224, was signed into law last August. But actual...