Publications

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) estimated that nearly 40 cents of every additional dollar earned by Massachusetts families between 2016 and 2018 was spent on health care and that 23% of middle class families in Massachusetts with employer coverage devoted more than a quarter of all earnings to health care.

Profile on Hebrew Senior Life’s response to COVID-19, including utilizing components of an existing HPC-funded program—the Right Care, Right Place, Right Time (R3) program—to inform the system they put in place to meet the needs of all residents during the pandemic.

This brief shares lessons learned from the HPC’s Health Care Innovation Investment (HCII) program on successfully sustaining grant-funded initiatives.

An annual report released by the HPC documenting projects and activities undertaken during the HPC's 2020 remote Summer Fellowship Program.

The Telemedicine Pilot Investment Program was designed to demonstrate the potential of telemedicine to address behavioral health access challenges in high-need populations across the Commonwealth. This report includes case studies of the four awardee organizations, analyzes program impact, and provides insights from the pilot program and ongoing considerations for telehealth.

This DataPoints issue provides key facts about the 14 ACOs that were recertified by the HPC in December 2019 (“certified ACOs”), with a focus on their risk contracts, approaches to provider compensation, and delivery system improvement efforts.

This video highlights residents across the Commonwealth and their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenges they and their communities faced, and the innovation and resilience that came out of the pandemic.

The ACO Profiles provide a snapshot of each HPC-certified ACO, using non-confidential information submitted to the HPC through ACO Certification and other public data. This edition of the Profiles include the ACOs certified by the HPC in 2019.

An annual report released by the HPC providing an overview to the structure and budget of the agency, through fiscal year 2020.

This playbook is a guide to building capacity, engaging patients, and transforming care in community hospital settings based on lessons learned from the HPC’s Community Hospital Acceleration, Revitalization, and Transformation (CHART) Investment Program