Health and Human Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2homepage&L=1&L0=Home&sid=Eeohhs2 http://www.mass.gov/Eeohhs2/RSS/Home/Government/Departments%20and%20Divisions/MassHealth/newsandupdates.xml © 2009 Commonwealth of Massachusetts 2009-11-18T00:00:00Z http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2pressrelease&L=4&L0=Home&L1=Government&L2=Departments+and+Divisions&L3=MassHealth&sid=Eeohhs2&b=pressrelease&f=091118_smoking_cessation&csid=Eeohhs2 2009-11-18T00:00:00Z 2009-11-18T00:00:00Z

The Patrick Administration announced today that the new MassHealth benefit to help smokers quit is already paying off. Within just one year, users of the smoking cessation benefit had dramatic reductions in hospitalizations for heart attacks, declines in emergency and clinic visits for asthma, and a significant decrease in acute birth complications.

http://www.mass.gov?pageID=eohhs2subtopic&L=5&L0=Home&L1=Consumer&L2=Insurance+(including+MassHealth)&L3=MassHealth+Information+for+Members&L4=Coverage+Updates&sid=Eeohhs2 2009-11-09T00:00:00Z 2009-11-09T00:00:00Z

http://www.mass.gov/flu 2009-10-15T00:00:00Z 2009-10-15T00:00:00Z

http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2pressrelease&L=4&L0=Home&L1=Government&L2=Departments+and+Divisions&L3=MassHealth&sid=Eeohhs2&b=pressrelease&f=090602_cost_strategies&csid=Eeohhs2 2009-06-02T00:00:00Z 2009-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Patrick Administration announced today that Massachusetts has been selected to participate in a new national initiative to improve health care and control costs for individuals who are eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare.

http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2pressrelease&L=4&L0=Home&L1=Government&L2=Departments+and+Divisions&L3=MassHealth&sid=Eeohhs2&b=pressrelease&f=090601_smoking_rate_drop&csid=Eeohhs2 2009-06-01T00:00:00Z 2009-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Patrick Administration announced today that more than 75,000 MassHealth smokers have used the state's tobacco cessation pilot program to try to quit smoking since July 2006.

http://www.mass.gov/Eeohhs2/docs/masshealth/newmmis/05-08-09_letter.rtf 2009-05-14T00:00:00Z 2009-05-14T00:00:00Z

http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2modulechunk&L=4&L0=Home&L1=Government&L2=Departments+and+Divisions&L3=MassHealth&sid=Eeohhs2&b=terminalcontent&f=masshealth_provider_important_message_newmmis&csid=Eeohhs2 2009-03-12T00:00:00Z 2009-03-12T00:00:00Z

http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2pressrelease&L=4&L0=Home&L1=Government&L2=Departments+and+Divisions&L3=MassHealth&sid=Eeohhs2&b=pressrelease&f=090312_increase_coverage&csid=Eeohhs2 2009-03-12T00:00:00Z 2009-03-12T00:00:00Z

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded $1 million to Massachusetts' Office of Medicaid, in partnership with the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Medical School, to help support enrollment of eligible children in the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) over the next four years.

http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2modulechunk&L=4&L0=Home&L1=Government&L2=Departments+and+Divisions&L3=MassHealth&sid=Eeohhs2&b=terminalcontent&f=masshealth_governors_fy10-budget-proposal-mh-summaries&csid=Eeohhs2 2009-02-02T00:00:00Z 2009-02-02T00:00:00Z

http://www.mass.govhttps://www.ebidsourcing.com/processPublicSolSummView.do?action=soltypeCd&docStatus=OPEN&docUserId=3172&docViewType=OPEN&docId=115453&doValidateToken=false&soltypeCd=UNIVERSAL 2009-01-23T00:00:00Z 2009-01-23T00:00:00Z