HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2765        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3679

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act repealing mandated benefits that are no longer effective..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 38C of Chapter 3 of the General Laws, is hereby amended by adding after subsection (d) the following:

(e). The Division of Health Care Finance and Policy shall report appropriate legislation to  repeal those State Mandated Health Benefits identified in its Comprehensive Review of Mandated Benefits in Massachusetts that no longer conform to existing standards of care in terms of clinical appropriateness or evidence-based medicine.