Mass. Insured Struggling With Health Care Access, Costs
Health insurance is mandatory in Massachusetts and the latest state-sponsored snapshot, based on findings collected from April through August 2023, indicate that 98.3 percent of residents reported having insurance.
Massachusetts health care by the numbers
This week on The Codcast, John McDonough of the TH Chan School and Paul Hattis of the Lown Institute are joined by Lauren Peters, executive director of the MA Center for Health Information and Analysis. They discuss the center's role in informing public policy discussions, its involvement in the Steward saga, and a variety of significant trends in MA health care, including overall spending and the shortage of primary care physicians.
Mass. health care labor shortage hard for nursing, home care | Boston Globe
The survey quantifies what is widely known: Massachusetts has a serious shortage of health care workers.
Status of primary care system keeps slipping
The Center for Health Information and Analysis and Massachusetts Health Quality Partners unveiled a primary care dashboard on Thursday to track the primary care situation, and officials from both organizations sounded alarm bells at the initial findings.
About a third of Mass. voters are unhappy with health care access, new poll shows - The Boston Globe
Experts say those numbers, revealed in a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll, are just the latest to highlight a growing crisis in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Health Care Costs Rose Sharply Again In 2022
As policymakers this week examine a law meant to keep health care cost growth within sustainable bounds, a new report makes clear that the health care sector has a double-sided
State Takes First Look At Pediatric Hospital Readmissions
Unplanned hospital readmissions are viewed by health care analysts as an measure of system performance and quality, and new state data marks the inaugural look at readmission rates among people
The costs of drug pricing middlemen
In the fight against ever-rising drug prices, attention is increasingly zeroing in on a little-noticed middleman of the pharmaceutical chain ?" pharmacy benefit managers.
The cost of temporary staffing at Massachusetts hospitals doubled in 2022, according to a new state report, leading to a significant drop in the profitability of local hospitals.
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