Healey announces first steps to lower health care costs, investment in primary care
Primary care made up 8.4% of MassHealth spending in 2024, the highest spending category, according to the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis....
House votes unanimously to steer more spending to primary care
The House envisions the state gradually spending 15% of all healthcare dollars on primary care by 2036. Currently, just 6.6% of total commercial healthcare expenditures flow toward primary care, according to a dashboard from the Center for Health Information and Analysis.
Half of all nursing homes in Massachusetts are understaffed
According to figures provided by the Center for Health Information and Analysis, that (figure) amounts to just 0.5% of the $2.3 billion in revenue that Massachusetts nursing homes received from MassHealth.
$170m in medical debt erased for 140,000 Eastern Mass. residents in nonprofit deal
More than 12% of state residents have medical debt, according to the Center for Health Information and Analysis’ 2023 Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey.
Massachusetts Senate wants to address primary-care doctor shortage - The New Bedford Light
30% of Massachusetts residents who have had difficulty accessing primary care, according to a 2025 report from the Center for Health Information and Analysis....Meanwhile, only 6.6% of commercial healthcare spending in Massachusetts was directed to primary care in 2024, according to a report from the Center for Health Information and Analysis.
Mass. health care faces ‘crisis’ after Supreme Court ruling ends TPS for Haitians
The state’s Center for Health Information and Analysis found the need for nurses is highest in nursing homes, with a 26% nursing vacancy rate.
Mass. tying medical debt credit ban proposal to provider licensing
The biennial Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey found that 13.5% of residents had family medical debt, with the vast majority incurring debt while they and all their household family members had insurance coverage...according to the survey conducted by the Center for Health Information and Analysis.
Gov. Healey proposes ban on reporting medical debt to credit agencies
Gov. Maura Healey announced on Tuesday a regulations proposal that would block licensed healthcare providers, as well as debt collectors working for them, from reporting medical debt to consumer credit agencies. The biennial Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey found that 13.5% of residents had family medical debt, with the vast majority incurring debt while they and all their household family members had insurance coverage. About 41% of people were contacted by a collection agency about their debt, according to the survey conducted by the Center for Health Information and Analysis.
Mass. poised to ban medical debt from being reported to credit agencies
Governor Healey said the move would protect patients from long-term financial harm due to an illness or injury....More than one in eight Massachusetts residents, or more than 12 percent, have some sort of medical debt, according to a 2025 study from the Center for Health Information and Analysis, despite near-universal health insurance levels in the state. Families with incomes between 139 and 500 percent of the federal poverty line and Black residents were more likely to have $2,000 or more in medical debt, the study found. Patients often forgo other medical care as a result.
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