Ahead of a Beacon Hill hearing, a pair of Massachusetts lawmakers have called on a state oversight panel to ask some tough questions of the company that's taken over the physicians' network formerly owned by bankrupt Steward Health Care. Benson Sloan, the CEO of the private-equity-owned Rural Healthcare Group, is slated to testify before the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission. In a three-page letter obtained exclusively by MassLive, Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked the regulatory panel to press Sloan, who is expected to testify under oath, to "uphold the [company's] public commitments" to continue participating in MassHealth, and to preserve continuity of care for former Steward patients.
