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Registration of Provider Organizations

The Massachusetts Registration of Provider Organizations (MA-RPO) Program is a first-in-the-nation program that increases transparency of provider structure and performance, tracks changes in the health care market over time, and provides researchers, policymakers, market participants, and the public with access to the resulting dataset.

The MA-RPO Program is guided by the following principles: administrative simplification, avoiding duplicative data requests through ongoing coordination with other state agencies, balancing the importance of collecting data elements with the potential burden to provider organizations, and phasing in the types of information that provider organizations must report over time.

Through its statutory authority, the HPC was directed to develop and administer a registration program for provider organizations, through which entities would submit information on their organizational and operational structure and governance. The law also required provider organizations to complete an annual filing with the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA). To streamline the administration of the program, in 2017 the HPC and CHIA created a single program that incorporates the required data elements for both the HPC and CHIA. Under the MA-RPO Program, a provider organization will submit an annual filing to the Commonwealth, which will satisfy its obligations under the law.

Provider organizations interested in receiving program updates and notifications about the MA-RPO Program can sign up for the MA-RPO mailing list.

MA-RPO Program Regulations

The MA-RPO Program is governed by two regulations: one issued by the HPC and one issued by CHIA.

The HPC’s regulation implements M.G.L. c. 6D §11 and §12 and creates the framework for Provider Organization registration, including applicability, registration and reporting processes, and specifies the type of information that will be collected by the Commission upon registration.

CHIA’s regulation implements M.G.L. c. 12C § 9 and describes the annual reporting requirements for Provider Organizations.

2024 Filing

To complete the 2024 filing, Provider Organizations must review and update the data that they submitted in the 2023 filing to reflect their structures and relationships as of January 1, 2024. Provider Organizations will also submit their Financial Statements file(s), Physician Roster file(s), and their Payer Mix file(s) as attachments. Templates for each of these files are available in the 2024 Filing Templates section of the 2024 Filing page.

2024 filing materials are due by Monday, September 30, 2024 at 5:00 PM. For more information on the 2024 filing requirements, please see the 2024 Filing tab on the right hand side of the page.