Delegate Listing

11/8/2021

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Follow up to MMS Town Hall - November 1, 2021

11/5/2021

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Massachusetts Medical Society Comments to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance in Response to the RFI on Mental and Behavioral Health (PDF)

11/4/2021

CoCM has have been underwhelming and largely confined to academic medical centers. The new Medicare …

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Overview of October 2021 BOT Meeting

11/1/2021

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Massachusetts Medical Society Comments to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance in Response to the RFI on Mental and Behavioral Health

11/1/2021

Medicare beneficiaries, yet implementation of models like CoCM has have been underwhelming and largely …

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Testimony in Support of H.2291, An Act Relative to Hospital Medical Staffs Before the Committee on Public Health

10/29/2021

with the medical staff and that large systems may not govern multiple medical staffs with one governing board …

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Massachusetts Medical Society Comments to CMS Region 1 in Response to Request for Policies to Implement after the Public Health Emergency Ends (PDF)

10/26/2021

care facilities have seen large decreases in patient visits due to a combination of executive orders … the median contracted rate. Therefore, large contracts (representing many physicians under one contract … practices) to engage in fair contracting with large health insurance payers and plans. MMS is also …

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Testimony Relative to H.1267, S.766, S.758 and S.787 Before the Committee on Health Care Financing

10/26/2021

as an inevitable outcome unless there is effective professional liability reform. Antitrust reform. As large …

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PHS 2021 Annual Report

10/19/2021

personal skills to deal with the people employed at large institutions. I learned that the relationship … between large hospitals and their physicians has evolved to enforce the rapport between medical and allied …

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Complete Delegates’ Handbook

10/18/2021

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