Publications

Presented at the 2025 American Public Health Association Conference and PNQIN Spring 2026 Summit

Presented at the 2025 American Public Health Association Meeting

This issue of the HPC’s DataPoints series identifies pharmacy deserts – communities without convenient access to a pharmacy and the medication and services they provide – across the state, as well as “near-deserts” – communities that are vulnerable to becoming pharmacy deserts.

Hospital at home is a model of care that allows hospitals to provide hospital-level services in a patient’s home rather than in a traditional “brick and mortar” setting. This episode of HPC Shorts explores how the hospital at home model of care has been implemented in Massachusetts.

This HPC policy brief explores how the hospital at home model of care has been implemented in Massachusetts. Through this model, hospitals provide hospital-level services in a patient’s home, rather than in a traditional “brick and mortar” setting for patients who are clinically stable enough to receive this care at home.

This issue of the HPC’s DataPoints series examines the relative commercial prices for primary care services as compared to common specialty services to better understand and quantify existing payment disparities.

Presented at the 2025 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

Presented at the 2025 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

Presented at the 2025 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

Presented at the 2025 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting