Did your office find whether the Kaiser Foundation report on Massachusetts funding of Mental Health was accurate? In that report, Massachusetts was reported as paying significantly less per capita than any New …
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Will, This the report I where I found state comparisons on mental health expenditures. http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparemaptable.jsp?cat=5&ind=278 Thanks for following up with DMH to see if it can shed some light. Pam
Mental Health Budget
Hi Will, We talked on March 15 about the accumulated cuts of $55 million to mental health services in Massachusetts since 2009, more than any other New England state. Yesterday, …
A Dialogue on Health Care
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Report on annual hearing of the Department of HealthCare Finance and Policy
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Final Budget Highlights
Highlights of the final budget include good local aid results, strong municipal health reform, limited spending with no new taxes, moderate reforms of the public counsel system and relatively good funding for a number of high priority human services.