Publications

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

This factsheet evaluates the Community Hospital Acceleration, Revitalization, and Transformation (CHART) Program’s Phase 1 results and the impact of short-term, high-need investments across 28 community hospitals in Massachusetts.

In this annual report for 2016, 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 2016 report 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.

This factbook provides an overview of the Community Hospital Acceleration, Revitalization, and Transformation (CHART) Program’s Phase 2 hospital awardees, including awardee target populations and aims of their new care models.