Publications

The HPC's Health Equity Practice and Style Guide is a practical resource developed by and for HPC staff. Its purpose is to promote intentional and consistent use of language and terminology across all agency work products, to encourage reflection among staff as they communicate about equity within their workstreams, and to provide resources, tools (including preferred terms), and HPC-specific use cases. The Guide is a living document, updated by a staff committee and released annually.

In this annual report for 2024, the HPC presents new research to enhance the collective understanding of health care spending trends and cost drivers and evaluates progress in meeting the Commonwealth’s cost containment, care delivery, and payment system goals.

Despite the Commonwealth’s strong overall performance in measures of maternal health, recent data indicate significant, persistent inequities in maternal health outcomes. This episode of HPC Shorts highlights inequities in rates of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) by race and ethnicity, as well as the spending and affordability implications of these adverse outcomes for birthing people in Massachusetts.

This issue of the HPC’s DataPoints series explores trends in GLP-1 prescriptions in Massachusetts through September 2023 and examines the use and spending impacts of these drugs in the Commonwealth.

This short video highlights the work of Birth Equity and Support through the Inclusion of Doula Expertise (BESIDE) Investment Program. This video features Massachusetts State Senator Liz Miranda, BESIDE awardee, Baystate Medical Center staff and their doula service partners, Springfield Family Doulas, along with a BESIDE program participant.

Presented at the 2024 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

This report explores inequities in the rate of severe maternal morbidity among birthing people in Massachusetts and examines spending and affordability implications of adverse maternal outcomes by race and ethnicity.

This document explains the core concepts of the MassUP Program and provides examples of how they were put into practice by each of the four MassUP partnerships.

In this annual report for 2023, the HPC presents new research to enhance the collective understanding of health care spending trends and cost drivers and evaluates progress in meeting the Commonwealth’s cost containment, care delivery, and payment system goals.

In this annual report for 2022, the HPC presents new research to enhance the collective understanding of health care spending trends and cost drivers and evaluates progress in meeting the Commonwealth’s cost containment, care delivery, and payment system goals.