Regulatory Issues

The MMS monitors state and federal regulations affecting physician interaction with patients, other health care workers, hospitals, health plans and new technologies.

• Massachusetts Medical Society Opioid Therapy and Physician Communication Guidelines August 31, 2017
• Comments Regarding Proposed Regulatory Changes to Licensing and the Practice of Medicine (243 CMR 2.00) Regulations before the Board of Registration in Medicine May 19, 2017
• Testimony In Opposition to Proposed Changes to Regulations of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, 101 CMR 317.00 May 12, 2017
• Testimony in Opposition to Proposed Changes to Masshealth Regulations, 130 CMR 433.000 May 12, 2017
• CDC Opens Draft Opioid Guidelines for Public Comment December 23, 2015
• MMS Comments to CMS on Meaningful Use Stage III and MACRA December 14, 2015
• CMS to Offer Process to Seek Reprieve from Meaningful Use Penalties December 3, 2015
• The Massachusetts Earned Sick Time Law: What Every Employer Needs To Know July 30, 2015
• MMS Welcomes Report of Governor's Opioid Working Group June 22, 2015
• Bold Steps to End the Opioid Epidemic – The Physician Contribution to the Solution May 21, 2015
• Comments to The Health Policy Commission: Registration of Provider Organizations Data Submission Manual May 15, 2015
• Proposed Health Policy Commission Patient Centered Medical Home Certification Standards April 10, 2015
• Comments of the Massachusetts Medical Society to the Massachusetts Opioid Task force April 1, 2015
• Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Obligations March 25, 2015
• Public Health Council Approves Regulations for Prescription Monitoring Program March 12, 2015
• Massachusetts Breast Density Notification Law February 13, 2015
• Mass. Electronic Death Registration System February 10, 2015
• New Medical Marijuana Registration Rules Take Effect Feb. 1 January 30, 2015
• Overview of Final EHR/Meaningful Use Regulations January 21, 2015
• Walgreens Expands Its 'Good Faith Dispensing' Policy December 22, 2014