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CHIA monitors and reports on a wide variety of health care indicators in Massachusetts to help legislators, policymakers, payers, and providers improve quality, affordability, access, and outcomes in the health care system.

The Annual Report on the Performance of the Massachusetts Health Care System serves as the basis for ongoing review of the health care market and for measuring the progress of the state’s cost containment efforts. It includes the Commonwealth’s Total Health Care Expenditures calculation along with several other key indicators.

In January 2023, CHIA, in collaboration with Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP), published Massachusetts’ first-ever dashboard of metrics to monitor the health of the primary care system in the Commonwealth. A high-functioning primary care system can lead to better patient outcomes, lower costs, and more equitable care.

Standard Statistics is a set of health care metrics that measure the performance of the Massachusetts health care system. Taken from its unique data sets, CHIA presents statistics on health care spending, insurance coverage, and acute hospital financial performance and utilization.

CHIA's Massachusetts Hospital Profiles contain financial health metrics and quality metrics for individual hospitals. This publication also includes financial information for each of the multi-acute hospital systems in the Commonwealth.

Hospital readmissions are a central issue in efforts to improve health care quality and reduce costs. Readmissions being a costly and potentially preventable problem that impacts patient health and experience of care both nationally and in Massachusetts.

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Each year, pursuant to M G L c 12C, the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) examines the performance of the Massachusetts health care system and reports on trends in coverage, cost, and quality indicators to inform policymaking. New this year, the report includes a chapter on health care affordability that presents a consumer-centric picture of rising health care costs and its downstream implications, as well as a section and interactive dashboard that provides comparative insights into how medical spending varies by community demographics.  Read more....

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CHIA recently started a reporting series focused on health care equity in Massachusetts. While Massachusetts has made significant strides to mitigate barriers to access and affordability through legislative reforms and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), substantial disparities persist among specific subpopulations in health insurance coverage, access, utilization, and affordability. Read more.....

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The Center for Health Information Analysis (CHIA), in collaboration with Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP), is releasing Massachusetts’ first-ever dashboard of metrics to monitor the health of primary care in the Commonwealth. A high-functioning primary care system can lead to better patient outcomes, lower costs, and more equitable care. Read more....

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The Massachusetts Health Care Workforce Survey (MHCW), a new survey of provider organizations across select health care sectors, will collect critical information on labor participation, workforce needs, recruitment and retention challenges, and policy opportunities to help address the workforce crisis. Learn more....

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Nursing facilities serve an important role in the continuum of health care services in Massachusetts. To better understand this component of the health care system, CHIA's initial report in this aspect of the Massachusetts health care system examines the Commonwealth's nursing facilities at an industry level, as well as by analytic cohorts, on measures of utilization, financial performance, and quality of care over a five-year period (2013–2017) Read more....

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Hospital readmissions are a central issue in working to improve health care quality and reduce costs. Readmissions are a costly and potentially preventable problem that impacts health care both nationally and in Massachusetts. Read more...

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CHIA identifies, calculates, disseminates, and maintains a specific set of standard statistics that measure the performance of the Massachusetts health care system. This information is derived from CHIA's unique data sets or other reliable sources. Read More