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Health Policy Commission Finds Progress and Challenges in Examination of Health Care Trends

Growth in private health care spending stays low, while sharp increases for pharmaceuticals and MassHealth drove overall health care spending above 3.6% benchmark

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Statement from David Seltz on New HPC Board Member

HPC welcomes Dr. Donald Berwick to the Board

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HPC Survey on Health Care Innovation Investments

BOSTON — The HPC’s Health Care Innovation & Investment (HCII) Fund will invest $6 million in payer- and/or provider-led initiatives to implement promising care delivery and payment innovations that target the most persistent drivers of health care cost growth in Massachusetts. The HPC is currently designing this program and anticipates announcing a competitive application process in early 2016.

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Health Policy Commission Receives Grant To Empower Consumers and Employers To Lower Health Care Costs

Funding from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will allow HPC to better understand what factors influence consumer choice of health care providers

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Statement from Dr. Stuart Altman, Chair, Massachusetts Health Policy Commission on CHIA Report

BOSTON — “The CHIA report has mixed news, reporting both positive trends in the market and areas for concern, chief among them, that health care expenditures in the Commonwealth grew at a much higher rate than the cost growth benchmark, set by the Health Policy Commission last year at 3.6%.

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Health Policy Commission Receives Funding in State Budget for Behavioral Health Pilots to Curb Opioid Abuse

Funding will improve patient care, reduce long term expenditures, and guide future health policy development

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Health Policy Commission Recognizes Harrington Healthcare System for Accomplishments in First Phase of Community Hospital Investment Program

CHART Program Supports Community Hospitals, Helps Deliver Quality and Effective Care

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Health Policy Commission, Health and Human Services Office Announce $12 Million in Behavioral Health Funding through Interagency Agreement

Funding will support children, residents most in need of vital services; improve service quality in priority areas

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HPC Highlights Accomplishments from First Phase of Community Hospital Investment Program

CHART Program Supports Community Hospitals, Helps Deliver Quality and Effective Care

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Health Policy Commission Issues Recommendations to Increase Affordability, Quality of Health Care in Massachusetts in 2014 Cost Trends Report

Cutting edge recommendations and commitments present opportunities for enhancing the transparency, quality, and affordability of health care system

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