2018
Annual Report
Individual Purchasers
In The
Massachusetts Health Care System
The 2018 Annual Report on the Performance of the Massachusetts Health Care System includes a final calculation of the Commonwealth’s 2016 Total Health Care Expenditures (THCE) and an initial calculation of 2017 THCE. THCE is a measure of total statewide health care spending in the Commonwealth.
The report also includes information from public and private sources related to specific health care expenditures for Massachusetts residents, quality of care in the Commonwealth compared to national performance, enrollment and coverage trends, premiums and member cost-sharing, and payer use of funds.
This report informed the Health Policy Commission’s 2018 Health Care Cost Trends Hearing, which was held on October 16 and 17, 2018.