The state’s health care watchdog has become supportive of a planned $1 billion expansion to Boston Children’s Hospital, after saying it could raise health care spending and threaten competitors.
Stuart Altman, chair of the Health Policy Commission, said the conditions imposed on the project by the Department of Public Health in the preliminary approval have been sufficient to mitigate the cost growth concerns.
Among the conditions, Children’s cannot pass the cost of the project onto its patients,…
The state’s health care watchdog has become supportive of a planned $1 billion expansion to Boston Children’s Hospital, after saying it could raise health care spending and threaten competitors.
Stuart Altman, chair of the Health Policy Commission, said the conditions imposed on the project by the Department of Public Health in the preliminary approval have been sufficient to mitigate the cost growth concerns.
Among the conditions, Children’s cannot pass the cost of the project onto its patients,…