Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Massachusetts Senate Bill S2931

Introduced
1/29/26  
Refer
1/29/26  

Caption

Order relative to authorizing the joint committee on Health Care Financing to make an investigation and study of certain current Senate documents relative to to health care financing matters.

Companion Bills

MA S908

Replaces Establishing a healthcare insurance premium payment pool for working families

MA S818

Replaces Relative to eliminating the PCP referral requirement for specialty gynecological care

MA S809

Replaces Relative to patient access to biomarker testing to provide appropriate therapy

MA S715

Replaces Relative to modern family building

MA S1511

Replaces Regulating surgical assistants

MA S852

Replaces Preventing medical debt by restoring health safety net eligibility levels

MA S861

Replaces Relative to fiduciary responsibility

MA S692

Replaces To facilitate timely access to quality health care by expanding access to patient navigation

MA S890

Replaces To study the prevalence and cause of long term acute hospital stays

MA S726

Replaces Relative to insurance coverage of mobile integrated health

MA S840

Replaces Relative to insurer responsibility to the operating budgets of health care oversight entities

MA S111

Replaces Ensuring access to behavioral health services for children involved with state agencies

MA S873

Replaces Relative to hospital closures and health planning

MA S695

Replaces Promoting consumer choice in health care

MA S892

Replaces To alleviate skyrocketing consumer health care costs

MA S1583

Replaces To restore integrity in the marketing of pharmaceutical products and medical devices

MA S878

Replaces Relative to asset limits for MassHealth

MA S709

Replaces For supportive care for serious mental illness

MA S913

Replaces To stabilize adult day health services

MA S1535

Replaces Relative to safe patient handling and mobility in certain health facilities

MA S1515

Replaces Relative to enhancing statewide hospital capacity coordination

MA S827

Replaces To ensure access to prescription medications

MA S916

Replaces To enhance analysis of state health mandates and costs

MA S881

Replaces Providing Medicaid coverage for tobacco cessation programs

MA S698

Replaces Relative to consumer deductibles

MA S679

Replaces Relative to mental health providers

MA S798

Replaces Relative to small business health insurance incentives

MA S824

Replaces Relative to IUD pain management coverage

MA S877

Replaces To promote an enhanced care worker minimum wage

MA S880

Replaces Regarding Medicare savings programs eligibility

MA S724

Replaces Promoting healthcare access and affordability for patients

MA S917

Replaces To address the financial sustainability of the Health Safety Net

MA S844

Replaces To improve continuity of care for MassHealth members with chronic conditions

MA S791

Replaces Relative to nature as a prescription

MA S716

Replaces Relative to telehealth parity for nutrition counseling

MA S907

Replaces To protect Norwood healthcare access

MA S712

Replaces Relative to ensuring treatment for genetic craniofacial conditions

MA S1578

Replaces Measuring the impact of Long COVID in the Commonwealth

MA S1505

Replaces Relative to LGBTQ+ health disparities

MA S914

Replaces Relative to spouses as caregivers

MA S1554

Replaces To reduce lung cancer deaths

MA S845

Replaces To protect 340B providers in the Medicaid program

MA S1551

Replaces Establishing a naloxone purchase trust fund

MA S912

Replaces Ensuring temporary nursing service agency quality

MA S891

Replaces Relative to the primary care workforce development and loan repayment grant program at community health centers

MA S898

Replaces Relative to patient centered access to behavioral health services in accountable care organizations

MA S886

Replaces Relative to family members serving as caregivers

MA S168

Replaces To increase the safety of individuals with disabilities relying on life-support equipment

MA S1362

Replaces To prohibit mandatory overtime

MA S893

Replaces To ensure timely health care cost reporting and protecting not-for-profit patient care

MA S1514

Replaces Relative to provider choice

MA S848

Replaces Relating to covered entity reporting to increase accountability to safeguard benefit for vulnerable patients

MA S742

Replaces Relative to cognitive rehabilitation for individuals with an acquired brain injury

MA S894

Replaces Relative to coverage for chronic illness

MA S1480

Replaces Relative to physician workforce data collection

MA S718

Replaces Eliminating cost sharing for certain behavioral health services

MA S814

Replaces Relative to health insurance coverage notification

MA S1601

Replaces Relative to the reform of the personal care attendant system

MA S1418

Replaces Relative to fetal opioid drug exposure

MA S856

Replaces Ensuring access and continuity of care to specialist and hospital services for dually eligible individuals

MA S897

Replaces Relative to hospital price transparency

MA S1792

Replaces Relative to mandatory coverage for certain health screenings for firefighters

MA S1388

Replaces Building resilience and increasing access to mental health services

MA S864

Replaces Limiting excessive growth in the operating budgets of health care oversight agencies

MA S899

Replaces Relative to hospital profit and fairness

MA S1411

Replaces To establish a perinatal behavioral health care workforce trust fund

MA S903

Replaces Improving access to post acute services

MA S841

Replaces To support equal access to community care for elders and persons with disabilities

MA S465

Replaces Supporting individuals suffering with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and their families

MA S472

Replaces Relative to Massachusetts home care eligibility

MA S839

Replaces Relative to funding for nursing home staffing

MA S902

Replaces Lowering health care prices for patients

MA S847

Replaces Relative to rapid whole genome sequencing

MA S1847

Replaces To provide diabetes prevention program benefits for GIC insurees

MA S884

Replaces To define modest meals and refreshments in prescriber education settings

MA S874

Replaces Strengthening mental health centers

MA S1791

Replaces Relative to local public housing authorities access to the dental and vision insurance plan managed by the group insurance commission

MA S758

Replaces Defining financial responsibility for uncollected co-pays, co-insurance and deductibles

MA S859

Replaces Establishing a public health option

MA S1586

Replaces Relative to smoking cessation agents

MA S896

Replaces To prohibit inappropriate use of the health care cost growth benchmark

MA S1488

Replaces Relative to facilitating the utilization of psychologists on the health care team

MA S853

Replaces Preserving and protecting public health

MA S1289

Replaces Clarifying mandatory overtime protections

MA S802

Replaces To support behavioral health prevention for children

MA S910

Replaces Relative to association health plans

MA S796

Replaces Relative to reducing unnecessary delays in patient care

MA S777

Replaces Relative to specialty medications and patient safety

MA S778

Replaces Relative to the sustainability of public health dental hygienists through adequate reimbursements

MA S683

Replaces Relative to special education health care costs

MA S865

Replaces Expanding the moral obligation bond program to acute care hospitals

MA S823

Replaces Enhancing post-pregnancy mental health care

MA S774

Replaces Relative to requiring insurance providers cover a minimum of 30 days for in-patient substance abuse treatment

MA S832

Replaces Providing health insurance coverage for scalp and facial hair prostheses

MA S846

Replaces To extend enhanced Medicaid benefits to eligible hospitals

MA S905

Replaces To improve health care cost accountability

MA S906

Replaces Relative to health care non-discrimination

MA S885

Replaces Relative to premium impact statements

MA S776

Replaces Relative to colon cancer screening

MA S863

Replaces Relative to non-opioid options for chronic pain

MA S759

Replaces Redirecting excessive health insurer reserves to support health care safety net programs

MA S1621

Replaces Relative to medical records requests

MA S871

Replaces Ensuring equal access to medical treatments essential for people with a developmental disability, intellectual disability, or autism

MA S849

Replaces To ensure health care as a right

MA S728

Replaces Relative to step therapy and in vitro fertilization insurance coverage

MA S1481

Replaces Providing for consumer access to and the right to practice complementary and alternative health care services

MA S915

Replaces Ensuring temporary nursing service agency quality

MA S1565

Replaces Relative to diabetes prevention

MA S888

Replaces Increasing access to MassHealth dental providers

MA S696

Replaces Ensuring transparency in the practice of dental leased networks

MA S694

Replaces Empowering health care consumers

MA S805

Replaces Relative to PANDAS/PANS screening in medical/clinical settings

MA S756

Replaces Expanding insurance coverage for hearing aids and related services

MA S154

Replaces Establishing guardians as providers of medical care to support the rights of incapacitated persons

MA S822

Replaces Expanding health insurance access for state employees

MA S622

Replaces Protecting public health and reducing health care costs

MA S1042

Replaces Relative to life saving treatment

MA S883

Replaces To protect qualified medicare beneficiaries from improper billing

MA S911

Replaces To strengthen the management of the health care connector

MA S806

Replaces Increasing access to acute hospital at home services

MA S1538

Replaces Connecting veterans with access to breakthrough treatments

MA S1582

Replaces Improving Hepatitis C screening

MA S1602

Replaces Improving pediatric cancer research

MA S860

Replaces Establishing medicare for all in Massachusetts

MA S792

Replaces Relative to increasing consumer access to licensed rehabilitation counselors

MA S879

Replaces To update Medicaid resource limits for seniors

MA S2587

Replaces Relative applied behavioral analysis reimbursement rates

MA S2600

Replaces Requiring health insurance coverage for scalp cooling systems

MA S2599

Replaces Providing insurance coverage for the medically necessary treatment of port-wine stains

Previously Filed As

MA S2972

Order relative to authorizing the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing to make an investigation and study of certain current Senate documents relative to health care financing matters.

MA S3067

Order relative to authorizing the joint committee on Health Care Financing to make an investigation and study of certain current Senate documents relative to health care financing matters.

MA S3038

Order relative to authorizing the joint committee on Health Care Financing to make an investigation and study of certain current Senate documents relative to health care financing matters.

MA S2790

Order relative to authorizing the joint committee on Public Health, to make an investigation and study of certain current Senate documents relative to public health matters.

MA S2989

Order relative to authorizing the joint committee on Financial Services to make an investigation and study of certain current Senate documents relative to financial services matters.

MA S2783

Order relative to authorizing the joint committee on Transportation, to make an investigation and study of certain current Senate documents relative to transportation matters.

MA S2774

Order relative to authorizing the joint committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy, to make an investigation and study of certain current Senate documents relative to telecommunications, utilities and energy matters.

MA S2792

Order relative to authorizing the joint committee on Education, to make an investigation and study of certain current Senate documents relative to education matters.

MA S2786

Order relative to authorizing the joint committee on Public Service, to make an investigation and study of certain current Senate documents relative to public service matters.

MA S2787

Order relative to authorizing the joint committee on Financial Services, to make an investigation and study of certain current Senate documents relative to health insurance matters.

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