General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 6D Health Policy Commission

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 6D, Section 1
  As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:--  "Actual costs'', all direct and indirect costs...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Health policy commission; governing board; members; duties and powers; annual report - Chapter 6D, Section 2
  (a) There shall be established within the executive office for administration and finance, but not under its control, a state agency known as the health...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board powers and duties - Chapter 6D, Section 3
  For the purposes of this chapter, the board shall be authorized and empowered as follows: (a) to develop a plan of operation for the commission....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory council - Chapter 6D, Section 4
  There shall be an advisory council to the commission. The council shall advise on the overall operation and policy of the commission. The council shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Monitoring of health care delivery and payment system - Chapter 6D, Section 5
  The commission shall monitor the reform of the health care delivery and payment system in the commonwealth under this chapter. The commission shall: (i) set...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment by acute hospital, ambulatory surgical center or surcharge payor for estimated expenses of commission - Chapter 6D, Section 6
  [Text of section added by 2012, 224, Sec. 15 effective July 1, 2016. See 2012, 224, Sec. 284.] Each acute hospital, ambulatory surgical center and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Administration of the Healthcare Payment Reform Fund; competitive process for development of health care payment and service delivery models; annual report - Chapter 6D, Section 7
  (a) The commission, in consultation with the advisory council, shall administer the Healthcare Payment Reform Fund, established under section 100 of chapter 194 of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public hearings; witnesses; annual report - Chapter 6D, Section 8
  (a) Not later than October 1 of every year, the commission shall hold public hearings based on the report submitted by the center for health...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Health care cost growth benchmark; modification - Chapter 6D, Section 9
  (a) Not later than April 15 of every year, the board shall establish a health care cost growth benchmark for the average growth in total...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to health care entities exceeding health care cost growth benchmark; performance improvement plan; waiver; penalty for failure to comply - Chapter 6D, Section 10
  (a) For the purposes of this section, “health care entity” shall mean a clinic, hospital, ambulatory surgical center, physician organization, accountable care organization or payer;...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration program for provider organizations; division of insurance risk certificate - Chapter 6D, Section 11
  (a) The commission shall develop and administer a registration program for provider organizations. A provider organization shall be registered for a term of 2 years...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Negotiation of network contracts by unregistered provider or provider organization prohibited - Chapter 6D, Section 12
  (a) No provider or provider organization may negotiate network contracts with any carrier or third-party administrator except for a provider or provider organizations which are...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of material changes to operations or governance structure of provider or provider organization; cost and market impact review - Chapter 6D, Section 13
  (a) Every provider or provider organization shall, before making any material change to its operations or governance structure, submit notice to the commission, the center...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Standards of certification for patient-centered medical homes; coordination of care; quality standards - Chapter 6D, Section 14
  (a) By January 1, 2014, the commission, in consultation with the office of Medicaid, shall develop and implement standards of certification for patient-centered medical homes....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certification as accountable care organization (ACO); standards - Chapter 6D, Section 15
  (a) The commission shall establish a process for certain registered provider organizations to be certified as accountable care organizations, herein referred to as ACOs; provided...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Office of patient protection; powers and duties; external review system - Chapter 6D, Section 16
  [ Clause (1) of subsection (a) effective until July 1, 2014. For text effective July 1, 2014, see below.] (a) There is hereby established within...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report - Chapter 6D, Section 17
  The commission shall keep an accurate account of all its activities and of all its receipts and expenditures and shall annually make a report thereof...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adoption of regulations to implement chapter 6D - Chapter 6D, Section 18
  The commission may adopt regulations to implement this chapter.

Last modified: September 11, 2015