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Kowalczyk covers healthcare and medicine for the Globe, including treatment and cost trends in hospitals and physicians’ practices. She is a graduate of Cornell University, and has worked for the Globe since 2000.
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Hospitals mobilize on health cost bill
By Liz Kowalczyk , Globe Staff
Massachusetts hospitals last year spent more than any other sector on lobbying politicians, reflecting the industry’s size and also the high stakes.
2 Mass. plans vie for savings on health care
By Liz Kowalczyk , Globe Staff
In a plan to be unveiled today, Senate leaders will call for less aggressive spending limits on the health care industry than the House proposed, and fewer controls on high-priced hospitals.
House targets health spending
By Liz Kowalczyk , Globe Staff
Massachusetts House leaders called for new limits on the fees charged by hospitals and doctors and for creation of an agency to monitor medical spending.
House plans to release health care cost-control plan Friday
By Liz Kowalczyk , Globe Staff
Legislative leaders said Thursday that they will release comprehensive plans to control health care costs in Massachusetts within the next week. The House has scheduled a press conference Friday afternoon at 2:30, during which House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Representative Steven Walsh, a Lynn Democrat who co-chairs the Health Care Financing Committee, will discuss details of the House proposal. The Senate plans to release its cost-control plan on Wednesday.