Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Financial Services

Event Details

Status:: Completed
Event Date:: Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Start Time:: 10:00 AM
Location:: A-2 and Virtual
Event Description: Health Insurance Matters - Contracting

The Joint Committee on Financial Services will hold a hearing on health insurance contracting matters before the committee.

*Please be advised that the agenda and docket of bills to be heard may be amended upon agreement of the Chairs no less than 72 hours from the time of such hearing pursuant to Joint Rule 1D.

**All Senate matters on the agenda are required to be reported on by December 3, 2025 pursuant to Joint Rule 10.

***All House matters on the agenda are required to be reported on by September 13, 2025, subject to extensions consistent with House Rule 27.

The public is invited to participate in this hybrid hearing, which will be livestreamed and archived for later viewing on the General Court website, https://malegislature.gov/. Hearings will be recorded and posted publicly on the Joint Committee on https://malegislature.gov/Committees/Detail/J11/Hearings.

***INSTRUCTIONS FOR REGISTRATION / TESTIMONY***

Persons who wish to testify in person or virtually or submit written testimony may do so by completing this form linked here:

Registration form

DEADLINE TO PRE-REGISTER: Persons planning to testify virtually must sign up no later than 5:00 p.m. on July 11, 2025. Individuals and groups testifying in person are strongly encouraged to register using the form above prior to the deadline. Registration by the deadline is required for those who wish to testify virtually during the live hearing and encouraged for those who wish to testify in person. Please indicate whether you plan to testify in person or virtually. Participants who indicate that they plan to testify virtually will receive a Microsoft Teams link to the hearing with instructions via email after the deadline closes, shortly before the hearing. Please be aware that even those who register to testify in person will receive a link to participate virtually as a backup option.

SAME DAY SIGN-UP FOR IN-PERSON TESTIMONY ONLY – IF TIME ALLOWS: 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. Time permitting, when all pre-registered individuals have been called to testify, the Chairs will then call any individuals who sign up on the day of the hearing.

WRITTEN TESTIMONY: If you would like to provide written testimony, please include the bill number in the subject line of the email, as well as your name, address, phone number, and organization, if any, on the submitted testimony. Written testimony is encouraged and will continue to be accepted after the hearing until the relevant bill is acted upon. The Committee requests that written testimony may be submitted to the Joint Committee on Financial Services by emailing jointcmte-financialservices@malegislature.gov Please include "Financial Services Committee Testimony, [Relevant Bill Number]" in the subject line of the email. Those who plan to submit only written testimony may do so before or after the signup deadline.

The most secure method to submit testimony is through The Committee’s email address above. In the alternative, written testimony may be submitted to the Committee at: State House, Joint Committee on Financial Services, Room 254, 24 Beacon Street, Boston, MA. 02133. Please use only one method to submit your testimony and please submit no more than once.

Please be advised that all written testimony submitted will be read by Committee Members and staff and may be made publicly available at the discretion of the Chairs. Do not submit any personal information you do not wish to disclose publicly.

ORDER OF TESTIMONY: The Chairs, at their discretion, will determine the order of testimony during the hearing. It is the responsibility of the individuals registered to testify to be prepared to speak when called upon by the Chairs. If an individual is called by the Chairs and that person is unavailable or not logged into the Teams platform, the Chairs will move on and call the next individual or panel. The Chairs will limit testimony to 3 minutes per speaker.

If you have any questions, you may email questions at lisa.pellegrino@mahouse.gov, from Chair Murphy’s office or Shane Correale shane.correale@masenate.gov from Chair Feeney’s office.
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Item Name	Start Time	Duration	Webcast
Joint Committee on Financial Services - 7-15-2025	7/15/2025 10:00 AM	01:23:06

Health Insurance - Contracting Matters 10:00am - 1:00pm

Bill	Bill Title	Sponsor
H.1118	An Act relative to prior authorization requests	Mark J. Cusack
H.1120	An Act relative to patient access to primary care services	Mark J. Cusack
H.1126	An Act to streamline patient disclosure requirements	Michael S. Day
H.1136	An Act improving the health insurance prior authorization process	Marjorie C. Decker
H.1140	An Act to remove barriers to patient care	Daniel M. Donahue
H.1142	An Act to promote increased access to patient care through equitable reimbursement	Paul J. Donato
H.1144	An Act to protect health care consumers from surprise billing	Paul J. Donato
H.1156	An Act relative to uncollected co-pays, co-insurance and deductibles	Carole A. Fiola
H.1168	An Act relative to eliminating the PCP referral requirement for specialty gynecological care	Judith A. Garcia
H.1196	An Act relative to unpaid health insurance deductibles	Steven S. Howitt
H.1210	An Act relative to AI health communications and informed patient consent	Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
H.1255	An Act relative to reducing unnecessary delays in patient care	Christopher M. Markey
H.1320	An Act relative to reducing the administrative burden for preauthorization	Margaret R. Scarsdale
H.1375	An Act prohibiting surprise outside billing	Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
S.706	An Act streamlining the prior authorization process	John J. Cronin
S.758	An Act defining financial responsibility for uncollected co-pays, co-insurance and deductibles	Barry R. Finegold
S.762	An Act relative to streamlining notice and disclosure	Cindy F. Friedman
S.770	An Act to prevent inappropriate denials by insurers for medically necessary services	John F. Keenan
S.783	An Act to promote increased access to patient care through equitable reimbursement	Joan B. Lovely
S.796	An Act relative to reducing unnecessary delays in patient care	Mark C. Montigny
S.801	An Act to remove barriers to patient care	Michael O. Moore
S.818	An Act relative to eliminating the PCP referral requirement for specialty gynecological care	Pavel M. Payano

Present (9)

James M. Murphy (HOU)

David Biele (HOU)

Simon Cataldo (HOU)

Ryan M. Hamilton (HOU)

Steven S. Howitt (HOU)

Sally P. Kerans (HOU)

William F. MacGregor (HOU)

Tram T. Nguyen (HOU)

Christopher J. Worrell (HOU)

Absent (2)

Michael S. Chaisson (HOU) *

Kate Lipper-Garabedian (HOU) *

	Document
	H1118 summary
	H1120 summary
	H1126 summary
	H1142 summary
	H1144 summary
	H1156 summary
	H1168 summary
	H1196 summary
	H1210 summary
	H1255 summary
	H1320 summary
	H1375 summary
	H1140 summary
	H1136 summary

Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Financial Services

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