MMS In The News
January 16, 2020 - Congressman Richard Neal is taking the right approach on ‘surprise medical billing’ (Guest viewpoint)
With the growing national clamor over how to address healthcare costs in the U.S., one of the greatest ongoing concerns – understandably – has been “surprise medical bills.”
January 6, 2020 - Industry Voices—The Massachusetts Medical Society declares 'health care is a basic human right'
The Massachusetts Medical Society is the first state medical society to assert through an
organizational policy that healthcare is a basic human right, a policy subsequently supported by the American Medical Association.
January 4, 2020 - Massachusetts Shows Us What We Must Do Next for Intersex Rights
The Massachusetts Medical Society takes a stand against doing intersex surgery without patients' consent, but other groups need to follow suit,
writes Kimberly Zieselman.
January 2, 2020 – America's Doctors Send Letter Urging President Trump to Re-Enter Paris Climate Agreement
Today, hundreds of thousands of doctors, nurses and other health professionals are urging President Trump to
reverse his withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.
December 20, 2019 - Postponing intervention urged for intersex children
The Massachusetts Medical Society and its 25,000-member physicians and students last week adopted organizational policy supporting the notion that intersex children not be operated on until the child is able to participate in decision making, the
group announced in a press release.
