CHIA has developed dashboards providing analyses and trends sourced from the Massachusetts Acute Care Hospital Inpatient Discharge (Case Mix) Database. These dashboards give insights into hospital inpatient and emergency department utilization patterns. Read more....
The Quality Measure Catalog is a voluntary survey—administered jointly by CHIA and Health Policy Commission (HPC)—that collects information on which quality measures payers have included in their global budget-based risk contracts with health care providers for the upcoming year. Read more.....
Interactive graphics enable users to take a deeper look into each Massachusetts hospital’s data, as well as allowing for comparisons between hospitals or at the statewide level. The individual profiles contain analyses for each hospital presented in the context of the statewide figures and of the patient population that each hospital serves. Read more.....
CHIA reports both annually and quarterly on the performance of the Commonwealth’s acute care hospitals, associated hospital health systems (HHS), and affiliated physician organizations. This information includes the Massachusetts Hospital and Hospital Health System Financial Dashboard to help users better visualize financial data and perform customizable analyses. Read more...
Enrollment Trends monitors health insurance coverage in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where coverage is defined by unique Massachusetts residents with primary, medical membership in the 14 largest commercial payers, MassHealth (Medicaid), or Medicare. Read more...
Health care prices for similar health care services vary considerably both in Massachusetts and across the United States. CHIA reports on this variation using a methodology that accounts for price differences that might be justified by:
o The patient's illness or complexity of care needed
o The type of commercial health insurance plan
o The array of medical services supported at the institution
This publication includes customizable interactive graphics along with an executive summary and databook. Read more....
CHIA's special online supplement to our Annual Report explores utilization trends and the continued strain on the Massachusetts health care system, the emergence of new COVID-19 treatments, and the adoption of telehealth as an essential part of the delivery system. View supplement...
Primary care and behavioral health care (PCBH) comprise an array of vital services that can meaningfully shape patient outcomes and are often associated with lower health care costs and higher quality. However, comprehensive data on expenditures for these services in Massachusetts has been limited. To build a foundational dataset that can support future policy initiatives and provide insight into the Commonwealth’s investment in these areas, CHIA collected data on payments made by commercial health plans to health care providers delivering primary care and behavioral health services. Read more...
As part of CHIA's ongoing work to monitor health care quality in the Commonwealth, A Focus on Provider Quality: Selected Clinical Measures, 2018 and 2020 examines performance across a subset of metrics from the NCQA Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®). This analysis explores the clinical performance of care delivered to Massachusetts commercial HMO/POS members during 2020, both at the statewide and primary care medical group levels. Read more...