The 2017 Annual Report on the Performance of the Massachusetts Health Care System includes a final calculation of the Commonwealth’s 2015 Total Health Care Expenditures (THCE) and an initial calculation of 2016 THCE. THCE is a measure of total statewide health care spending in the Commonwealth. In May 2018, CHIA published a brief that explored trends in unsubsidized and ConnectorCare plans that were touched upon in the 2017 Annual Report. Read more....
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
Hospital readmissions are a central issue in efforts to improve health care quality and reduce costs, due to readmissions being a costly and potentially preventable problem that impacts patient health and experience of care both nationally and in Massachusetts. CHIA's latest report Hospital-Wide Adult All-Payer Readmissions in Massachusetts: SFY 2011-2017, released in December 2018, takes a statewide look at readmissions in Massachusetts acute care hospitals, providing insights into statewide, regional, and hospital-specific readmission rates. Read more concerning both readmissions and revisits...