When People Called MassHealth and No One Answered

When People Called MassHealth and No One Answered

Eleven Massachusetts social workers fielding calls about the state's health insurance program for poor people routinely failed to greet callers or put their telephones on mute so that callers wouldn't hear them and would hang up, according to the state.

But MassHealth's decision to suspend them can't stand because the state agency didn't provide sufficient notice that calls were being monitored by supervisors, a state appeals court ruled last week.