BOSTON — The HPC’s Health Care Innovation & Investment (HCII) Fund will invest $6 million in payer- and/or provider-led initiatives to implement promising care delivery and payment innovations that target the most persistent drivers of health care cost growth in Massachusetts. The HPC is currently designing this program and anticipates announcing a competitive application process in early 2016.
BOSTON — “The CHIA report has mixed news, reporting both positive trends in the market and areas for concern, chief among them, that health care expenditures in the Commonwealth grew at a much higher rate than the cost growth benchmark, set by the Health Policy Commission last year at 3.6%.
BOSTON — The Special Commission on Provider Price Variation was established in May of 2016 with the charge of identifying the acceptable and unacceptable factors contributing to price variation in physician, hospital, diagnostic testing, and ancillary services. The Health Policy Commission was identified in the establishing statute (2016 Mass. Acts c.