MassHealth does not exclude people or treat them differently because of race, color, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or sex (including gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions).
MassHealth provides the following.
- Free aids and services are available to help people with disabilities communicate effectively with us.
- Qualified sign language interpreters
- Written information in other formats (large print, braille, accessible electronic formats, and other formats)
- Free language services are also available to people whose primary language is not English.
- Qualified interpreters
- Information written in other languages
If you need these services, contact us at (800) 841-2900, TDD/TTY: 711.
If you believe that MassHealth has failed to provide these services or discriminated in another way on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or sex (including gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), you can file a grievance with:
Section 1557 Compliance Coordinator
1 Ashburton Place, 10th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02108
Phone: (617) 573-1704, TTD/TTY: 711
Fax: (617) 889-7862
Email: Section1557Coordinator@state.ma.us
You can file a grievance in person or by mail, fax, or email. If you need help filing a grievance, the Section 1557 Compliance Coordinator can help you.
Additional information on this process is available at: Discrimination Complaint Procedure.
You can also file a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights in the following ways.
- Electronically through the Office for Civil Rights Complaint Portal
- By mail at
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue SW., Room 509F, HHH Building
Washington, DC 20201; or - By phone at 1-800-868-1019 (TDD: 1-800-537-7697)
- Office of Civil Rights Complaint forms
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