Publications

Slides presented at the 2023 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

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.

In this annual report for 2021, 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.

Podium presentation shared at the virtual AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in 2020, sharing findings on the utilization and spending impact of prescription drug coupons in Massachusetts.

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 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 legislatively-mandated report examines the prevalence and impact of health insurance payer policies that seek to reduce overall pharmaceutical spending by requiring alternative methods of distribution and payment for certain costly specialty drugs. The clinician-administered drugs subject to these policies, administered not by a retail pharmacy but by a clinician to a patient through injection or infusion in the outpatient setting, are typically high priced and represent a growing share of all pharmaceutical spending.

This twelfth issue of HPC DataPoints contains new data on PBM pricing for generic drugs in the Massachusetts Medicaid and commercial market.

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 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.