HPC Announces New Advisory Council Membership for 2023–2024 Term
New appointees highlight HPC’s continued focus on expanding represented perspectives, bring experience from health care and business sectors
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HPC Issues Report on Ambulance Utilization and Payment Rates
Chartpack identifies other state approaches to addressing ambulance billing reimbursement, highlights potential areas of future action
HPC Awards $400,000 To Combat Racial Inequities in Maternal Health
Programs will provide patients with care from doulas in their communities or with shared lived experience of inequities
New HPC Report Identifies Key Health Care Cost Drivers and Calls for Immediate Action To Confront Pressing Affordability Challenges Facing the Commonwealth
Recommendations take aim at excessive provider prices, health plan affordability, and persistent health inequities
HPC Announces New $10 Million Competition For Innovative Care Delivery Models That Deliver Better Health and Lower Cost: SHIFT-Care Challenge
The HPC seeks compelling new ideas from Massachusetts health care providers for reducing avoidable emergency department visits and hospital readmissions, including through models that increase patient access to timely behavioral health services
HPC Announces Advisory Council Membership for 2019–2020
Council includes representatives from health insurers, health care providers, small and large business, state policy makers, the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, and behavioral health and consumer advocacy groups
HPC Urges Action on Policy Recommendations Needed To Meet the Commonwealth’s Cost Containment, Care Delivery Goals
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) today released its 2018 Health Care Cost Trends Report (accompanying chartpack here) examining health care spending in Massachusetts in 2017 and the state’s performance against the health care cost growth benchmark. The report makes policy recommendations to address the continued high cost of health care in the Commonwealth.
New Research Shows Insurance Appeal and Review Process Protects Massachusetts Patients
Since 2014, a significant number of consumers received coverage for medically necessary care as a result of Massachusetts patient protection rights administered/regulated by the HPC’s Office of Patient Protection
Growth in Overall Spending Lowest Since Passage of 2012 Landmark Health Care Bill
BOSTON – Today, the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) issued key findings from its upcoming 2018 Cost Trends Report.
HPC Issues Key Findings From Upcoming Reports
Findings and Recommendations from Annual Cost Trends Report and Study on Availability of Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment