The state's health insurance program for poor people paid about $85 million health care for people who don't live in Massachusetts, the state auditor found.
The estimate is for so-called "capitation payments" that MassHealth, which includes the state's Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program, made during a 45-month period between January 1, 2018 and September 30, 2021, according to a report issued by the office of Massachusetts state auditor Diana DiZoglio.
Massachusetts U.S. Senator Ed Markey has proposed a bill to provide funding to study the barriers to "gender-affirming care."
The bill would appropriate $25 million for the National Institutes of Health and another $25 million for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" to study the barriers to gender-affirming care, and the effects these barriers have on people's health."
