Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Health Care Financing

Event Details

Status:

Completed

Event Date:

Monday, June 2, 2025

Start Time:

11:00 AM

Location:

Gardner Auditorium and Virtual

Event Description

Health Care Resources & Market Oversight; Pharmaceutical Access, Cost & Transparency

The Joint Committee on Health Care Financing will conduct a hybrid public hearing on Monday, June 2, 2025, from 11:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. in Gardner Auditorium on bills relating to Health Care Resources & Market Oversight; Pharmaceutical Access, Cost & Transparency.

This hearing will be chaired by House Chair Lawn and will include the matters listed on the docket below. Please be advised that all House matters being considered are required to be reported on by August 1, 2025, subject to extensions consistent with House Rule 27.

Questions regarding hearing logistics or on House bills on the docket should be directed to House Chair Lawn’s office by contacting Committee Director Timothy O’Neill via email at Timothy.Oneill@mahouse.gov, or via telephone at (617) 722-2430.

Questions regarding Senate bills on the docket should be directed to Senate Chair Friedman’s office by contacting Adelina Huo via email at Adelina.Huo@masenate.gov, or via telephone at (617) 722-1432.

The public is invited to participate in this hybrid hearing, which will be streamed live on the General Court website, https://malegislature.gov/. Hearings will be recorded and posted publicly, archived on the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing webpage, https://malegislature.gov/Committees/Detail/J24/Hearings for the duration of the 194th Legislative Session.

Please be advised that the schedule and agenda are subject to change at the agreement of the Chairs.

All House matters above are required to be reported on by August 1, 2025, subject to extensions consistent with House Rule 27.

LINK TO PRE-REGISTER TO TESTIFY: For both in-person and remote testimony, please fill out this FORM.

***INSTRUCTIONS FOR REGISTRATION / TESTIMONY***

DEADLINE TO PRE-REGISTER: For both in-person and remote testimony, the deadline to register to testify is 4:00 P.M. Wednesday, May 28, 2025. Individuals registered for remote testimony will receive an e-mail prior to the start of the hearing with a link to join the hearing on Microsoft Teams.

SAME DAY SIGN-UP FOR IN-PERSON TESTIMONY: Individuals who miss the deadline to pre-register for testimony may appear on the day of the hearing and sign-up to speak in-person on forms provided by committee staff outside of the hearing room. When all pre-registered individuals have been called to testify, the presiding Chair will then call any individuals who sign-up on the day of the hearing.

LEGISLATOR AND PUBLIC OFFICIAL TESTIMONY: Legislators and public officials are also required to pre-register to testify. The presiding Chair, at their discretion, may take legislators and public officials out of turn. The committee will extend this courtesy to legislators and public officials only, and it will not be expanded to include other individuals or panels.

ORAL TESTIMONY – TIME LIMIT: Each individual registered to testify shall be afforded 3 minutes to speak. Individuals offering testimony on multiple bills must do so within the 3 minute time limit. The presiding Chair, at their discretion, may further limit the time for testimony.

ORAL TESTIMONY – PARTICIPATING AS A PANEL: Individuals participating as part of a panel must fill-out the appropriate section of the pre-registration form. Please have each member of the panel fill out the pre-registration form separately and completely. The presiding Chair will permit either fully in-person panels or fully-remote panels only. Questions related to the registration of panels should be directed to the Committee Director at Timothy.Oneill@mahouse.gov.

WRITTEN TESTIMONY – DO NOT FILL OUT THIS FORM: For individuals wishing to provide written testimony ONLY, please do not fill out this form. The deadline for the submission of written testimony is July 25, 2025 at 4:00 P.M. Written testimony may be submitted electronically via e-mail to the following:

House Chair: John.Lawn@mahouse.gov
House Staff: Timothy.Oneill@mahouse.gov
Senate Chair: Cindy.Friedman@masenate.gov
Senate Staff: Adelina.Huo@masenate.gov

Written testimony may be physically mailed to the House and Senate Chairs at the below addresses:

CHAIR JOHN LAWN
JOINT COMMITTEE ON HEALTH CARE FINANCING
ATTN: TIMOTHY O’NEILL
24 BEACON STREET, ROOM 236
BOSTON MA, 02133

CHAIR CINDY FRIEDMAN

JOINT COMMITTEE ON HEALTH CARE FINANCING
ATTN: ADELINA HUO
24 BEACON STREET, ROOM 313
BOSTON MA, 02133

At the discretion of the Chairs and per committee rules, written testimony received by the committee will be made publicly available. The committee may limit or redact testimony that includes sensitive personal information or information that may jeopardize the health, wellness or safety of the testifier or others.

ORDER OF TESTIMONY: The presiding Chair, at their discretion, will determine the order of testimony during the course of the hearing. It is the responsibility of the individuals registered to testify to be prepared to speak when called upon by the Chair. In the event that an individual is called by the Chair and that person is not logged into the Teams platform, the Chair will move on and call the next individual or panel.

ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS: The committee will work to coordinate reasonable accommodations required to ensure that people with disabilities are able to participate fully in the hearing process Timely requests for accessibility accommodations, such as assistive listening devices and systems, sign language interpreting services, closed captioning and transcription services, will be provided upon request. Requests for services should be submitted by completing the state house accessibility form, https://malegislature.gov/StateHouse/AccessibilityForm/. If you have any questions regarding a submitted request for accessibility accommodations, please email Timothy O’Neill at Timothy.Oneill@mahouse.gov.

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Item Name	Start Time	Duration	Webcast
Joint Committee on Health Care Financing - 6-2-2025	6/2/2025 11:00 AM	02:14:05

Agenda
Documents

Health Care Resources & Market Oversight; Pharmaceutical Access, Cost & Transparency 11:00am - 2:30pm

Bill	Bill Title	Sponsor
H.1353	Resolve establishing a report to analyze long hospital stays	Antonio F. D. Cabral
H.1355	An Act strengthening oversight of health care facility spending	Mark J. Cusack
H.1356	An Act relative to transparency of hospital and health system finances	Mark J. Cusack
H.1357	An Act relative to insurer responsibility to the operating budgets of health care oversight entities	Michael S. Day
H.1361	An Act to address health care costs through the cost benchmark and rate review processes	Patricia A. Duffy
H.1372	An Act to improve health care cost accountability	Kevin G. Honan
H.1376	An Act relative to the operating budgets of health care oversight agencies	Hannah Kane
H.1384	An Act updating the health care cost growth benchmark and associated market oversight activities	John J. Lawn, Jr.
H.1385	An Act expanding the moral obligation bond program to acute care hospitals	John J. Lawn, Jr.
H.1397	An Act addressing unfair business practices in health care	James J. O'Day
H.1398	An Act relative to hospital profit and fairness	James J. O'Day
H.1408	An Act making technical changes to the Betsy Lehman Center for patient safety and medical error reduction enabling statute	Greg Schwartz
H.1419	An Act relative to pharmacy deserts	Christopher J. Worrell
H.4062	An Act relative to essential services	John J. Lawn, Jr.
S.840	An Act relative to insurer responsibility to the operating budgets of health care oversight entities	Nick Collins
S.843	An Act making technical changes to the Betsy Lehman Center for patient safety and medical error reduction enabling statute	Cynthia Stone Creem
S.851	An Act addressing unfair practices of private equity in health care	Julian Cyr
S.858	Resolve relative to pharmacy deserts	Lydia Edwards
S.864	An Act limiting excessive growth in the operating budgets of health care oversight agencies	Barry R. Finegold
S.865	An Act expanding the moral obligation bond program to acute care hospitals	Barry R. Finegold
S.868	An Act enhancing health care market oversight and pharmaceutical access	Cindy F. Friedman
S.873	An Act relative to hospital closures and health planning	John F. Keenan
S.875	An Act to promote transparency in prescription drug prices	Edward J. Kennedy
S.884	An Act to define modest meals and refreshments in prescriber education settings	Jason M. Lewis
S.885	An Act relative to premium impact statements	Joan B. Lovely
S.890	An Act to study the prevalence and cause of long term acute hospital stays	Paul W. Mark
S.892	An Act to alleviate skyrocketing consumer health care costs	Mark C. Montigny
S.893	An Act to ensure timely health care cost reporting and protecting not-for-profit patient care	Mark C. Montigny
S.895	An Act to promote transparency and prevent price gouging of pharmaceutical drug prices	Mark C. Montigny
S.896	An Act to prohibit inappropriate use of the health care cost growth benchmark	Michael O. Moore
S.897	An Act relative to hospital price transparency	Michael O. Moore
S.898	An Act relative to patient centered access to behavioral health services in accountable care organizations	Michael O. Moore
S.899	An Act relative to hospital profit and fairness	Michael O. Moore
S.904	An Act to strengthen health spending accountability processes within the health policy commission and the center for health information and analysis	Rebecca L. Rausch
S.905	An Act to improve health care cost accountability	Michael F. Rush
S.909	An Act empowering patients and entrepreneurs with real transparency on cost	Bruce E. Tarr
S.911	An Act to strengthen the management of the health care connector	Bruce E. Tarr
S.916	An Act to enhance analysis of state health mandates and costs	Bruce E. Tarr

	Document
	H1353 Bill Summary - Cabral
	H1355 Bill Summary - Cusack
	H1356 Bill Summary - Cusack
	H1357 Bill Summary - Day
	H1361 Bill Summary - Duffy
	H1372 Bill Summary - Honan
	H1376 Bill Summary - Kane
	H1384 Bill Summary - Lawn
	H1385 Bill Summary - Lawn
	H1397 Bill Summary - O'Day
	H1398 Bill Summary - O'Day
	H1408 Bill Summary - Schwartz
	H1419 Bill Summary - Worrell
	H4062 Bill Summary - Lawn

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