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S782 • 2025

An Act to increase health insurer reporting transparency

An Act to increase health insurer reporting transparency

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Sponsor
Joan B. Lovely
Last action
2026-02-26
Official status
Accompanied a study order, see S2972
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act to increase health insurer reporting transparency

An Act to increase health insurer reporting transparency By Ms.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to increase health insurer reporting transparency By Ms.
  • Lovely, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No.
  • 782) of Joan B.
  • Lovely for legislation to increase health insurer reporting transparency.

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  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-26 Senate

    Accompanied a study order, see S2972

  2. 2026-01-12 Senate

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Health Care Financing

  3. 2025-10-02 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 10/14/2025 from 10:30 AM-01:00 PM in A-1

  4. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Referred to the committee on Financial Services

  5. 2025-02-27 House

    House concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act to increase health insurer reporting transparency
By Ms. Lovely, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 782) of Joan B. Lovely for legislation to increase health insurer reporting transparency. Financial Services.

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Bill S.782

SECTION 1: Section 16 of chapter 12C of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following subsection:-

(d) The center, as part of its annual report, shall evaluate and report on individual carrier data metrics submitted to the center pursuant to subsection (b), clauses (1) through (5) of section 10 of chapter 12C as well as data submitted to the Division of Insurance under section 6 of Chapter 176J and section 21 of chapter 176O.

The center shall issue public reports on carrier data periodically, including through its annual report.

SECTION 2:

Section 6 of chapter 176J of the General Laws, appearing in the 2018 2 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting at the end of subsection (b) the following sentence:-

"The commissioner shall make all information submitted to the division pursuant to the provisions of this subsection publicly available on a website in an easily readable and understandable format on an annual basis.".

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