Publications

In this annual report for 2019, 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 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 twelfth issue of HPC DataPoints contains new data on PBM pricing for generic drugs in the Massachusetts Medicaid and commercial market.

Poster presented at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in 2019, comparing spending levels and quality at physician-led provider groups and academic medical center-anchored groups

This issue of DataPoints analyzes spending trends from 2013 to 2016 for commercially insured patients who have diabetes and use insulin to manage their condition.

In 2012, the Massachusetts legislature enacted a landmark health care cost containment law which set the ambitious goal of bringing health care spending growth in line with the growth in the state’s overall economy. It sought to do this by instituting a health care cost growth benchmark, a statewide target for the rate of growth of total health care expenditures (THCE).

In this annual report for 2018, 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.

Poster presented at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in 2018, examining the implications of out-of-network billing for patients, payers, and market dynamics

This seventh publication in the DataPoints series uses data on imaging use and spending for Original Medicare (“fee-for-service”) beneficiaries to compare spending and use in Massachusetts to the rest of the U.S.

The following analyses compare these 14 provider organizations by averaging patient characteristics and spending for commercially insured adult patients (ages 18 and older) whose PCPs are affiliated with each organization.