A federal judge on Tuesday cast serious doubt on Gov. Deval Patrick's aggressive move to ban a powerful new painkiller from being prescribed in Massachusetts, giving the administration and the drug's manufacturer until next week to resolve the dispute before she issues a ruling.
While Massachusetts has maintained high levels of health care coverage since state health care reform was passed in 2006, making it affordable for all Bay State residents requires “collective action” by insurers, providers, government officials and consumers.
The former treasurer of a nonprofit organization in Marlborough accused of misappropriating charity money for personal use has been ordered to pay $50,000 in restitution.
A new study by Wakefield-based SDL confirms what many likely could have guessed: If you want to appeal to millennials, you need to be using social media.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation (H 3783) banning lenders from requiring borrowers to purchase federal flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program in an amount exceeding the outstanding mortgage on their property.
Although it finished 2013 with an operating loss, Fallon Health reported net income of $13.2 million last year, thanks to nearly $16 million in investments and other income, the Worcester-based health care services organization said.
When Massachusetts passed its health care cost-containment law in 2012, policymakers acted under the logic that medical care should be treated like any other product, with customers able to shop around for the very best deal.