The bill would impose one-time fees on hospitals that have more than $700 million in net assets and a patient population with fewer than 60 percent Medicaid patients. It’s lawmakers’ latest effort to rein in healthcare costs and seek more parity between large Boston teaching hospitals and smaller community hospitals in the state, the newspaper reported.
Republican legislators have unsuccessfully requested more time to review the legislation, but it is expected to reach the House floor later this week.
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