The largest healthcare union in Massachusetts, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, issued the following statement today regarding Governor Baker’s call for additional transparency around consumer health care costs and provider price disparities:
The 52,000 Massachusetts health care workers of 1199SEIU support Governor Baker’s call to begin to address existing price disparities among Massachusetts hospitals and other providers through increased transparency around prices, costs and provider/payer contracts. Therefore, we respectfully request that Governor Baker and his Administration release contracts, rates and pricing information on:
• Medicaid Managed Care Organizations Payments to providers and contracts between MassHealth and the MCOs.
• Group Insurance Commission: Payments to and contracts with providers (including Total Medical Expense by plan).
• Mass Behavioral Health Partnership: Payments to providers and contracts between MassHealth and the MBHP.
Governor Baker should also direct the Center for Health Information & Analysis to release additional data from the new All Payer Claims Database, including an analysis of the disparities in commercial Total Medical Expense data at the zip code level.
For background and more information: www.faircaremass.org
The 52,000 Massachusetts health care workers of 1199SEIU support Governor Baker’s call to begin to address existing price disparities among Massachusetts hospitals and other providers through increased transparency around prices, costs and provider/payer contracts. Therefore, we respectfully request that Governor Baker and his Administration release contracts, rates and pricing information on:
• Medicaid Managed Care Organizations Payments to providers and contracts between MassHealth and the MCOs.
• Group Insurance Commission: Payments to and contracts with providers (including Total Medical Expense by plan).
• Mass Behavioral Health Partnership: Payments to providers and contracts between MassHealth and the MBHP.
Governor Baker should also direct the Center for Health Information & Analysis to release additional data from the new All Payer Claims Database, including an analysis of the disparities in commercial Total Medical Expense data at the zip code level.
For background and more information: www.faircaremass.org
