MMS Testimony in Opposition to H.3931, The Massachusetts Fair Health Care Pricing Act

3/8/2016

to the Commonwealth’s Rate Setting Commission.  The MMS is concerned that this initiative will amount to a step …

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Vital Signs March 2016 (pdf)

2/29/2016

the program, the pa- tients’ 30-day readmission rates dropped to 8.04 percent — roughly half of the baseline … rate. “It’s a relatively small sample size of patients but it shows that what we’re doing does … work,” Lowney said. “Even if you drop the read- mission rate by 1 or 2 percent for a large volume …

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Sentinel Event Alert

2/29/2016

settings The rate of suicide is increasing in America.1 Now the 10th leading cause of death,2 suicide … multidisciplinary suicide prevention team accomplished an 88 percent success rate for getting patients … of suicide is twice as high (100 percent higher) than general suicide rates for one year following …

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DELETE Question 6

1/19/2016

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Question 4

1/19/2016

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MMS Testimony Regarding Bicycle Safety

1/6/2016

pending before that Committee.   The need for passage of this legislation is growing as the rates …

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MMS Study Shows Patient Wait Times for Primary Care Still Long

1/1/2016

in the Federal insurance program for seniors age 65 and older. While primary care has the lowest acceptance rates … of Medicare, the specialties nonetheless maintain high rates of participation: 90% of family physicians and 85 …% of internists continue to accept Medicare. Acceptance rates for the specialties are as follows: orthopedic …

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CDC Draft Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for Chronic Pain - Dec 2015 (pdf)

12/23/2015

7.3% from 2007 to 2012, with opioid prescribing rates increasing more for family practice …, general practice, and internal medicine compared with other specialties (3). Rates of opioid …, while the death rate for the top leading causes of death such as heart disease and cancer has decreased …

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Tenth Annual Poster Symposium Winners

12/14/2015

of Uterine Artery Embolization and Bakri Balloon Tamponade on the Rate of Surgical Intervention …

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MMS Testimony in Opposition to H. 1935, An Act Relative to Electronic Prescribing of Opiates and Other Controlled Substances

12/3/2015

, Massachusetts led the country as the highest rate of adoption of electronic prescribing of non-controlled …

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