It is crucial for Radiologists to be aware of health care reform developments currently afoot in the federal and local (MA) arena and to understand how they affect us. MRS is actively working on behalf of its members, has been engaged in the political process and provides this resource page for its members to peruse important documents related to the process.
Massachusetts:
1. Commission Report, Bills, other public items
- MA Senate Bill 2260 (2012): An Act improving the quality of health care and reducing costs through increased transparency, efficiency and innovation
- MA Senate: Key Provisions in S 2260
- MA Senate: Health Care Reform Summary
- MA House Bill 4070 (2012): An Act relative to Health Care Quality Improvement and Cost Reduction Act of 2012
- MA 4070 – Section by Section Summary by Rep.Steve Walsh
- State House News article on MA 4070
- Small Business Health Insurance Affordability Bill (MA_S 2170, Sen Moore)
- Report of Special Commission on the Health Care Payment System
- MA H 2178: “An Act relative to Ionizing Radiation, pertaining to physicians delegating to PA procedures using ionizing radiation”
2. MRS Public Statements
- Proposed amendments to the MA Regulations for Licensing and the Practice of Medicine (243 CMR 2.00) – submitted to MA BORM by Christoph Wald on 9/23/2011
- Proposed amendments to the MA Regulations for the Control of Radiation (105 CMR 120.000 et seq) – submitted to MA DPH by Christoph Wald on 9/9/2011
- MRS testimony/position statement by Dr.Alan Semine on Special Commission hearings
- Response to S 2170 by MRS, A.Alan Semine, M.D.
- MRS Testimony on H2178, PA Fluorocopy
Federal Economics & Health Policy
- ACR Economics and Health Policy Resource Page
- ACR Government Relations news flash page
- ACR Government Relations Home Page
Recommended Reading
- Testing, Testing – No master plan for curbing cost, a bad thing? by Atul Gawande, New Yorker, published on 12/14/2009
- Achieving Health Care Reform by Elliott S.Fisher, MD MPH et.al., published in NEJM 6/11/2009
- The Cost Conundrum by Atul Gawande, published in the New Yorker on 6/1/2009
- The Prescription: An Ample Dose of Disruption by Michael J.Pentecost, MD, published in JACR