Publications

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This factsheet provides a high-level overview of the services provided by the HPC's Office of Patient Protection.

This DataPoints issue presents Massachusetts data from FAIR Health, Inc. on several specific services often involved in “surprise billing” scenarios and shows how payments would vary under different out-of-network payment benchmarks.

This brief provides an overview of the Community Hospital Acceleration, Revitalization, and Transformation (CHART) Program’s impact on building capacity, engaging patients, and transforming care in community hospital settings across Massachusetts.

This legislatively-mandated report examines the prevalence and impact of health insurance payer policies that seek to reduce overall pharmaceutical spending by requiring alternative methods of distribution and payment for certain costly specialty drugs. The clinician-administered drugs subject to these policies, administered not by a retail pharmacy but by a clinician to a patient through injection or infusion in the outpatient setting, are typically high priced and represent a growing share of all pharmaceutical spending.

An annual report released by the HPC providing an overview to the structure and budget of the agency, through fiscal year 2019.

This issue of HPC DataPoints examines the variation in opioid-related emergency department (ED) utilization in Massachusetts by zip code, as an accompaniment to the HPC’s recently released chartpack, Opioid-Related Acute Hospital Utilization in Massachusetts.

This twelfth issue of HPC DataPoints contains new data on PBM pricing for generic drugs in the Massachusetts Medicaid and commercial market.

This brief is the third in a series of resources that the HPC issued regarding the landscape of certified Massachusetts ACOs based on the information submitted by applicants for ACO Certification, combined with other publicly available information. The purpose of this policy brief is to provide an overview of the risk contracts and performance management approaches of Massachusetts ACOs.

This 2019 chartpack is one in a series of regularly reported updates on the impact of opioid use on acute care hospital utilization in the Commonwealth.