Publications

These profiles provide a high-level snapshot of Telemedicine Pilot Program awardees, the care model they implemented, and the goals of their initiatives.

These profiles provide a high-level snapshot of Maternal and Infant-Focused Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) Investment Program awardees, the care models they implemented, and the goals of their initiatives.

This brief is designed to increase understanding of the scope and scale of identified health care savings opportunities and provides a roadmap to reduce Massachusetts health care spending by $4.8 billion in five years.

This brief is the first 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 series is to provide policymakers, health care providers, payers and purchasers, researchers, and other members of the interested public with new information and insights regarding the characteristics of certified ACOs.

This one-pager summarizes the Targeted Cost Challenge Investments (TCCI) Investment Program.

This document summarizes the three pathways of the Health Care Innovation Investment (HCII) Program.

In this annual report for 2017, 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.

This report analyzes the increasing issue of behavioral health-related emergency department boarding in Massachusetts, the inadequate outpatient and inpatient supply of BH services causes of this increase, and identifies ways to alleviate pressure on EDs and improve outcomes for patients with BH diagnoses.

This 2017 chartpack is one in a series of regularly reported updates on the impact of opioid use on the health care system, availability of pharmacologic treatment, and recommendations for payment and care delivery reform in the Commonwealth.

Poster presented at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in 2017, examining emergency department boarding for behavioral health patients