From Health Plan Week - Word that Massachusetts — the same state where a few years ago regulators capped health insurers’ rates at 2009 levels, leading to widespread losses — intends to legislate a 3% medical cost trend could have been very bad news for insurers operating in the state. But a pair of bills introduced within days of each other in the Massachusetts House and Senate that aims to control the rising medical costs charged by providers and hospitals will have a negligible — and possibly even beneficial — impact on health insurers, both in the state and nationwide, several industry observers tell HPW. Read more