Issue 35: A Closer Look at Cardiac Ablation: The Commonwealth’s Highest-Spending Outpatient Procedure
August 2026
HPC Makes New Investments To Ease Patient Discharges From Hospital to Home
The PATHways awardees will receive $1.38M in total funding to support timely discharges to home, a contributing factor of increased lengths of stay and ED boarding.
HPC Issues Final Cost and Market Impact Review Report on Proposed CVS-MGB Primary Care Affiliation
HPC Finds Potential for Increased Primary Care Access; Projects Spending Impact of the Transaction to be $39.9 Million
New HPC Research Examines Payments for Behavioral Health Care and Proposes Policy Options
Policy event this week will explore issues and identify next steps to strengthen behavioral health care access, workforce
HPC Maintains 2027 Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark at 3.6% and Calls for Renewed Commitment to Affordability Across Health Care System
HPC also finalized new regulatory updates and discussed new investment program supporting hospital to home discharges
HPC Finds New Primary Care Model Has Potential To Increase Patient Access; Cost Impacts Raise Concerns
Preliminary review of MGB-CVS proposal estimates $40 million in increased spending annually