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Report: Mass. Health Care Costs Rose 4.3 Percent in 2019
March 25, 2021
Hospitals Helped Drive Spending Total to $64.1 Billion .....Spending on health care in Massachusetts hit $64.1 billion in 2019, a 4.3 percent increase that exceeded a state cost-control target and...
MassHealth Enrollment Up, Private Insurance Down In Pandemic
November 24, 2020
The number of people with MassHealth as their primary health insurance grew by about 10% from March through September, a spike a state agency attributes largely to federal COVID-19 legislation.A monthly...
Behavioral Health Comorbidities Linked with Higher Hospital Readmission Rates
November 06, 2020
Research recently released by the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) suggests hospitalized patients with a behavioral health comorbidity are at an increased risk for readmission. In a study...
Federal COVID funds boost flagging hospital revenue
October 16, 2020
THE CENTER FOR HEALTH Information and Analysis released its monthly hospital financial performance data on Thursday, providing a picture of how hospitals fared through the first five months of the...
MassHealth Enrollment Up More Than 5 Percent in Pandemic
September 23, 2020
Enrollment in MassHealth, the state's Medicaid program, has spiked by about 63,000 people since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in Massachusetts in March, but the overall number of people with...
Report finds uneven distribution of federal, state aid for Mass. hospitals
August 06, 2020
A report released Thursday morning by the Center for Health Information and Analysis shows that despite federal and state aid, many Massachusetts hospitals will face a long road to recovery...
For Mass. pharmacies, the largest amount of drug spending came from anti-inflammatory medicine, study suggests
February 13, 2020
Thursday, February 13, 2020 via MassLive Media - The majority of prescription drug spending for pharmacies between 2015 and 2017 went to medications treating inflammatory disorders, cardiovascular illnesses, asthma and other...
Hospital readmission rates in Massachusetts stayed steady last year
December 18, 2019
A new report finds that the rate of readmissions to Massachusetts hospitals has not changed over the last two years. The annual report released Wednesday by the Center for Health Information...
Report - Occupancy Rates, Margins Challenge Nursing Homes
November 25, 2019
Michael P. Norton, State House News Service STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, NOV. 25, 2019.....Even amidst a wave of closures, usage rates at nursing homes in Massachusetts that are still open are declining...
Mass. residents overburdened by health costs
October 22, 2019
Little agreement so far on what to do about that. by Andy Metzger, Commonwealth, Tuesday, October 22, 2019 EVEN AS OVERALL statewide spending on health care has remained just within...