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Tracked issues with at least one Massachusetts record since Apr 27, 2026.
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation
The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation reported that Health Safety Net payments to community health centers have averaged about $102 million a year since 2023, up 55 percent.
Massachusetts Legislature
The Massachusetts House passed a fiscal 2026 supplemental budget, 152 to 0.
Boston Indicators
Boston Indicators released a brief on opioid overdose deaths in Massachusetts. It counts 33,647 expansion-enrolled MassHealth adults with opioid use disorder who are at risk of losing coverage when work requirements start January 1, 2027.
Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association
The Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association reported that EOHHS held a virtual hearing on October 1 on its draft Medicaid waiver.
CommonWealth Beacon
CommonWealth Beacon reported that Health Connector open enrollment runs October 23 to January 23, 2027, and plans chosen by December 23 start January 1.
Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association
The Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association reported that the state opened applications for the first $162 million of Rural Health Transformation Program funding.
Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program reported a data breach affecting 184,914 Massachusetts residents to the state. The state's breach report lists Social Security numbers, medical records and driver's license numbers.
MassHealth
MassHealth posted its 2028–2032 waiver request, which seeks authority to pay hospitals if it removes 340B retail pharmacy margin from managed care payments.
MassHealth
MassHealth's 2028–2032 waiver request, posted September 14, 2026, would end the student loan repayment and nurse practitioner residency programs of its current waiver. CMS directed the change, and comments are due October 19.
MassHealth
About 7,300 MassHealth members lose comprehensive coverage on October 1, 2026, the agency says on a page updated September 24.
City of Boston / Boston Public Health Commission
Mayor Michelle Wu and the Boston Public Health Commission gave $300,000 each to ten health centers: Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Charles River Community Health, Codman Square, The Dimock Center, DotHouse Health, Harbor Health, Harvard Street…
The Boston Globe
Governor Healey filed a $2.24 billion supplemental budget to close out fiscal year 2026. It includes $1.8 billion in gross MassHealth funding, which the administration puts at $1.03 billion net after federal reimbursement.
The Boston Globe
Connector staff told the board that people buying unsubsidized individual plans will pay 12.4% more on average in 2027, a figure that includes member aging.
CommonWealth Beacon
MassHealth now expects about 310,000 members to face the federal work and education requirements that start January 1, 2027. Its June estimate was about 360,000.
Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association
MHA describes a staged escalation: the state carved out 25 high-cost drugs in 2020, weight-loss drugs in 2024, and is “fully carving out all 340B drugs in fee-for-service in July 2026.”
Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association
The Massachusetts Health Safety Net is funded by “a $165 million assessment on both hospitals and health insurers and $15 million in state funding,” yet shortfalls are “now running at more than $200 million a year” despite “$350 million in short-term…
Georgetown Health Care Litigation Tracker
The plaintiff states moved for summary judgment in Massachusetts v. Oz.
Corrected Oct 12, 2026: The summary judgment hearing was reset on October 8 from October 20 to October 22, 2026 at 10:00 a.m.
UMass Memorial Health
UMass Memorial Health said August 7 that Community Healthlink finalized program-transition plans with Behavioral Health Network, Clinical & Support Options, Community Health & Mental Health Association, Eliot Community Human Services, Mentor South Bay…
Office of Governor Maura Healey and Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll
Governor Healey signed Executive Order 657 on August 3, directing MassHealth to increase primary-care investment to 12% of total medical spending by the end of 2028.
Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services
MassHealth's August 11 statewide campaign says members are receiving direct notices, texts, emails, calls, webinars, and outreach through community organizations before work requirements and six-month eligibility checks begin January 1, 2027.
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
On July 29, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts denied the plaintiff states' preliminary-injunction request without prejudice.
Massachusetts Legislature
The official S.3141 history shows the Senate passed its primary-care package June 18, the House adopted an amended version published as H.5630 on July 30, the Senate did not concur, and both chambers appointed a conference committee July 31.
Patch
North End Waterfront Health (NEW Health) held a free community celebration at its Charlestown site for National Health Center Week, the annual NACHC-endorsed observance of the community health center model.
Massachusetts Legislature
H.4767 and S.3184 remain in conference after conferees were appointed July 23.
WBUR
New Bedford Community Health CEO Cheryl Bartlett told WBUR that more than 80% of the organization's revenue comes through Medicaid, so a commercial-rate floor would reach only a small share of its payer mix even if enacted.
Atrius Health Equity Foundation
The Atrius Health Equity Foundation says the first Lynn Community Health Fellowship class included 70 high-school students and that a new $3.7 million, four-year investment is intended to reach more than 250 fellows.
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, Inc. Reported on December 22 that Direct Relief's Fund for Health Equity, with support from Sanofi, awarded it $195,000 to expand asthma-care capacity for its Merrimack Valley patients.
North Shore Community Health
North Shore Community Health, Inc. Reported on February 11 that its medical team was providing care at Lifebridge Shelter in Salem every Thursday from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., or until the last patient was seen.
NeighborHealth
The directory-listed Neighborhealth Corporation, operating as NeighborHealth, reported that its new Adult Medicine space at 20 Maverick Square was completed and began serving patients in April 2025.
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program reported that its renovated clinic at the Woods Mullen women's shelter opened in early March 2025 after several years of planning and reconstruction.
Community Health Center of Cape Cod
Community Health Center of Cape Cod's February 4 announcement describes its first Family Nurse Practitioner residency as a 24-month, full-time paid postgraduate program.
New Bedford Community Health
New Bedford Community Health's January 13 release announces a $150,000 commitment from the Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation for its More Access, Better Care primary-care expansion.
MassHealth
MassHealth's final 130 CMR 406 pharmacy regulation and companion Pharmacy Facts 274 establish that registered 340B pharmacies must not use 340B stock for point-of-sale claims when MassHealth fee-for-service, the PCC Plan, a Primary Care ACO…
MassHealth
For adults age 21 and older, MassHealth says a $1,750 combined annual coverage limit for eligible MassHealth dental and Health Safety Net dental services took effect August 1, 2026, for Benefit Year 2027 (August 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027).
CommonWealth Beacon
Governor Healey's January 2026 FY2027 proposal allocated $22.7 billion to MassHealth within a roughly $63.4 billion budget. After federal reimbursement, the projected net state MassHealth cost was $9.3 billion, 7.4% above the prior year.
Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services
MassHealth's August federal-impact page estimates up to 300,000 Massachusetts residents could lose insurance and approximately $3.5 billion in annual federal health funding could be removed once coverage and financing changes are fully effective.
State House News Service
Massachusetts leaders announced a one-year, $250 million draw from the Commonwealth Care Trust Fund to stabilize ConnectorCare premiums after enhanced federal ACA tax credits expired.
Office of Governor Maura Healey and Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll
Massachusetts announced a $162,005,238.13 award for the first program year of the federal Rural Health Transformation Program, which runs from 2026 through 2030.
Office of Governor Maura Healey and Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll
Governor Healey signed the FY2025 supplemental relief bill on September 22, 2025.
CommonWealth Beacon
In a May 22, 2025 interview, Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers CEO Michael Curry argued that coverage losses and work-requirement paperwork would push patients toward later, higher-cost care…
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