Becker's Healthcare January 16, 2025
Francesca Mathewes

On Jan. 8, Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill into law that will increase Massachusetts’ oversight of healthcare transactions.

Here’s what ASCs need to know about the new law, according to a Jan. 14 report by JD Supra:

1. The law specifically aims to increase state scrutiny of private equity sponsors, significant equity investors, healthcare real estate investment trusts, management services organizations and pharmacy benefits companies.

2. It does this by making changes to the determination of need statute that will give the state health department grounds to change the DON review process.

3. The law will shift the responsibility for developing a state health resource plan to the Health Policy Commission, creating a new Health Resource Planning...

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