Articles about Local Insurance that may be useful to Massachusetts retirees

Blue cross blue shield

Mass Retirees Participates in Blue Cross Educational Forum

January 5, 2024
Focus on PECs & Local Insurance Issues Legislative changes in 2011 altered how municipalities bargained for health insurance with active ...Read More - Mass Retirees Participates in Blue Cross Educational Forum
Ibis health

IBIS Preliminary Study of MIIA Members

January 5, 2024
Suggests Participation Results in Significant Cost Savings Just a little over two years after MIIA and Mass Retirees first partnered ...Read More - IBIS Preliminary Study of MIIA Members
Mass hpc

Health Policy Commission Raises Alarms

October 27, 2023
Post Pandemic Costs Trend Upward In mid-September, the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) released its annual report on health ...Read More - Health Policy Commission Raises Alarms
4164

HPC Pressing For Health Care Cost Control Overhaul

September 13, 2023,
Prices, Costs to Consumers Heading "In The Wrong Direction," Seltz Says By Chris Lisinski, State House News Service SEPTEMBER 13 ...Read More - HPC Pressing For Health Care Cost Control Overhaul
Screenshot 2023 09 07 at 8 56 29 PM

Our focus this fall

September 8, 2023
September 8, 2023: Happy September! Our weekly Mass Retirees news updates are back. After a short Labor Day break, we ...Read More - Our focus this fall
GIC Open Enrollment & Annual PAC Drive Begins

GIC Open Enrollment & Annual PAC Drive Begins

March 31, 2023,
March 31, 2023: It is very hard to believe that today is the end of March. For what is normally ...Read More - GIC Open Enrollment & Annual PAC Drive Begins
Cvs

Gic Selects CVS as Fy24 Pharmacy Manager

December 15, 2022,
INCLUDES MEDICARE & NON-MEDICARE PLANSDECEMBER 15, 2022: The Group Insurance Commission held the final monthly commission meeting of the ...Read More - Gic Selects CVS as Fy24 Pharmacy Manager
Senate Passes Landmark Bill to Cut Prescription Drug Prices

Senate Passes Landmark Bill to Cut Prescription Drug Prices

August 8, 2022,
The U.S. Senate passed a historic budget bill on Aug. 7 that would help millions of Medicare enrollees better ...Read More - Senate Passes Landmark Bill to Cut Prescription Drug Prices