Board Pay to Remain Mass. Focus as State Taps New Top Charity Regulator

Mary Beckman, a former lawyer for a nonprofit Boston hospital, has been named to lead the Massachusetts state agency that regulates charities, The Boston Globe writes.

Ms. Beckman previously worked as a lawyer at Children’s Hospital in Boston, and was the state’s assistant secretary for health policy from 1999 to 2002.

She replaces David Spackman, who served four years as head of the nonprofit and public charities division of the state attorney general’s office.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said Ms. Beckman would continue the agency’s focus on health-care costs and insurance access amid a wave of mergers involving charity hospitals and controversies over executive and director pay at nonprofit insurers.

In a statement, Ms. Beckman listed “the important effort to create more transparency around issues of board and executive compensation” as an issue on which she planned to work with Ms. Coakley.