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It’s the first time the Health Policy has ever exercised its power since forming in 2012.

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Warning of a "spending problem" at Mass General Brigham, the Health Policy Commission on Tuesday both voted to require the hospital system to implement a performance improvement plan addressing its costs and said MGB's expansion plans run counter to the state's goals of controlling health spending growth.

The move marks the first time the HPC, created under a 2012 cost containment law, has exercised its authority to hold a provider or payer accountable for spending growth by requiring them to complete a performance improvement plan.

The largest health system in the state has spent $293 million from 2014 to 2019, which was the highest trajectory among Massachusetts providers.

Nearly six years after his arrest and 21 years after Susan Berman's shooting death, Robert Durst takes the stand in his murder trial in Los Angeles.

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Mass General Brigham’s plan for surgical centers in suburbs stirs controversy Competitors worry that the already dominant health care provider could become even more powerful By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey Globe Staff,Updated May 6, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend A rendering of the outpatient surgery center that Mass General Brigham is planning to build in Westborough.Mass General Brigham An ambitious plan by Mass General Brigham to expand into affluent suburbs miles from Boston has set...

By State House News Service Hispanic and Black patients represented a disproportionate share of COVID-19 hospitalizations in 2020, as did patients from lower-income communities, according to a new state report. Staff from the Health Policy Commission on Wednesday presented findings from their interim report into the pandemics impacts on the states health care system, an analysis the agency was directed to undertake as part of a health care law Gov. Charlie Baker signed in January....

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