The MMS Advocates for Women’s Reproductive Health

9/21/2021

mortality rates more than three times that of White women, according to the Centers for Disease Control …

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NEJM Healer Demystifies, Teaches, and Assesses Clinical Reasoning

9/21/2021

CONTRIBUTED BY NEJM GROUP Clinical reasoning is notoriously tough to teach, let alone assess. It involves complicated cognitive processes, demands lots of in-person instructional time, and is context-specific. NEJM Healer, a new online

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Vital Signs September-October 2021 PDF

9/21/2021

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Massachusetts Medical Society Comments on Section 1115 Demonstration Extension Request

9/20/2021

rates and payments systems must be aligned with these ideals. MMS supports the adoption of alternative … MassHealth in proposing a tiered payment system that proportionally increases the sub-capitation rate based …. In Massachusetts, Black and Latinx people experience homelessness and food insecurity at rates far exceeding those …

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Massachusetts Medical Society Comments to CMS on the 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PDF)

9/17/2021

Massachusetts health system reported that telehealth show rates had been 89% during the first half of 2020 … versus the show rate of 80% for in-clinic-only visits during the previous year. Moreover, a study … of Dermatology shows that compared to visit rates in-clinic, telehealth visits “had significantly lower no-show …

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Testimony in Support of H.1578, H.1577, H.1639 and S.1075 Before the Joint Committee on Judiciary

9/15/2021

the rate that can be charged on prejudgment interest on damages for the plaintiff at a rate of the average … brought as wrongful death actions are assessed at an interest rate of 12% which adds unwarranted costs … of medical peer review committee and setting the judgment interest rate for all medical malpractice cases …

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Testimony in Support of H.1578, H.1577, H.1639 and S.1075 Before the Joint Committee on Judiciary (PDF)

9/15/2021

, AN ACT RELATIVE TO PREJUDGMENT INTEREST RATES BEFORE THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY September 15 … to the system. • Set the rate that can be charged on prejudgment interest on damages for the plaintiff … at a rate of the average accepted auction price for the last auction of the fifty-two week US treasury …

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Testimony in Support of H.1245 and S.792, An Act to Provide Medicaid Coverage for Tobacco Cessation Before the Committee on Health Care Financing

9/14/2021

70,000 MassHealth recipients used the benefit, and the smoking rate declined from 38% to 28 …

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Testimony in Support of H.1245 and S.792, An Act to Provide Medicaid Coverage for Tobacco Cessation Before the Committee on Health Care Financing (PDF)

9/14/2021

MassHealth recipients used the benefit, and the smoking rate declined from 38% to 28%.vii …

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Testimony in Support of H.1297 and S.799, An Act Relative to Expanding Equitable Access to Maternal Postpartum Care (PDF)

9/14/2021

causes at approximately 3 times the rate White women in the United States. Research has shown … White women, and overall rates of pregnancy-associated mortality increased 33% from 2012 to 2014 alone …

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