Publications

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 report analyzes out-of-network billing in Massachusetts and provides context for state policy approaches to protect consumers, improve market functioning, enhance the viability of limited network products, and reduce costs.

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.

This research brief analyzes the serious illness and end of life health care landscape in Massachusetts.

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.

A high-level policy brief on oral health care access and emergency department utilization for avoidable oral health conditions in Massachusetts

This report examines the state of community hospitals in the Commonwealth, their value to the health care system, the challenges facing them, and policy solutions to address this.

This policy brief provides more detailed information on out-of-network billing as addressed in the 2015 HPC Cost Trends Report, including related concerns and highlights policy approaches taken by several other states to address these issues.