MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM’S proposed expansion into the suburbs would net the health system an estimated $385 million a year in profits, according to a report released Wednesday by Attorney General Maura Healey, raising questions about the expansion’s impacts on overall health care costs in the state. Healey spokesperson Jillian Fennimore said the attorney general’s office has a legal mandate to […]
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House votes to strengthen control of health system expansions
FIRING A SHOT across the bow of the state’s leading hospital networks, the House voted nearly unanimously on Wednesday to give a state health commission more authority to scrutinize expansion plans – and to give community hospitals what amounts to veto power over efforts by large hospital systems to encroach on their service area. The bill was passed as […]
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Mass General Brigham invests $50m in community partners
THE STATE’S LARGEST hospital system says it intends to invest $50 million over the next five years in 20 community partners who can help address mental health care shortages, chronic disease, and food insecurity. Mass General Brigham said the $50 million will be in addition to the $175 million it is already spending annually on […]