Publications

This legislatively-mandated report analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the health care delivery system in Massachusetts, including short-term and long-term implications.

This legislatively-mandated report examines the use and impact of prescription drug coupons in Massachusetts, focusing on coupons issued by pharmaceutical manufacturers that reduce a commercial patient’s cost-sharing.

In this issue of DataPoints, the HPC uses data from the MA-RPO program, a first-in-the-nation statutory reporting requirement designed to collect public, standardized information on the structures and relationships of large Massachusetts providers, to examine physician affiliations and changes in the physician market.

Poster presented at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in 2018, examining the relationship between community hospitals affiliating with larger health systems and retaining local care

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.

Poster presented at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in 2016, outlining the structure of the HPC's Registration of Provider Organizations (RPO) program, a first-in-the-nation system for collecting public, standardized data about the organizational structure and affiliations of its largest providers

Poster presented at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in 2016, focusing on spending for low-risk deliveries in Massachusetts