Health Care Committee
 AIM’s Health Care Committee is
by invitation, a 60-plus group of AIM members focused on legislative and regulatory issues affecting the cost, quality
and accessibility of health insurance in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts. The group assists AIM in developing its
pro-business legislative agenda and works to defeat legislation offered
by others that would be counter-productive to health care quality,
harmful to the business climate, costly to the businesses located here
or complicated to comply with or administer.
Members
The Health Care Committee is comprised
of benefit managers, human resource professionals, public policy
analysts and representatives from provider organizations, health
insurers and pharmaceutical companies.
Format
The Committee meets five times a
year. An expert in health care or a public official in the health
care arena, such as the Chair of the Joint Committee on Health Care
Financing, addresses the group discussing current health care or
insurance legislation or other relevant matters, usually with a lively
give and take on questions and answers. This presentation is
followed by a discussion among members about existing or potential
issues the committee can address collectively, strategy for moving the
agenda forward, a legislative update by AIM staff and other relevant
business.
Issues
During the past legislative session, AIM
advocated successfully for management reforms to the uncompensated care
pool and for more transparency in the health care system in terms of
provider performance and insurance costs. AIM partnered with
the Massachusetts Healthcare Purchaser Group and Patient Choice to
introduce the concept of tiered networks into our health care delivery
system so that employers and employees would have lower cost insurance
options. AIM fought legislation to undo the small group
insurance reforms and successfully amended a ballot initiative to make
health care a constitutional right by ensuring voters will have the
final say in any plan put forth by the Legislature.
AIM Committee Staff
Eileen P. McAnneny,
Esq. staffs the Health Care Committee and has been
with AIM since 1998. She is one of two primary lobbyists for AIM
on Beacon Hill. In addition to covering health
care issues, Eileen is responsible for taxation policy at
AIM Prior to joining AIM, Eileen served as counsel to the Senate
Chair of the Joint Committee on Taxation for almost four years.
Join
AIM
Health Care Committee Meeting - Wednesday, September 14,
2011 (Click links below to view handouts from the meeting)
Coalition for Successful Payment Reform
Recommendations of the Special Commission On the
Healthcare Payment System
Aligning Forces for Quality
Special Commission on Provider Price Reform
Slides
Summary Payment Reform
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