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Frequent flyers account for 9.4% of ER visits - Report says average length of stay was 4.2 hours
September 17, 2021
AS STATE POLICYMAKERS seek ways to slow the growth in health care costs and improve access to care, a new report by the Center for Health Information and Analysis on...
State report: Over half of Mass. residents have unmet health-related social needs
June 30, 2021
A new state report has found more than half of Massachusetts residents have unmet health-related social needs. The new study from the Center for Health Information and Analysis used the 2019...
New state dashboard puts health cost variances under scrutiny
June 30, 2021
The Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) has released its annual update of provider price variation in the Massachusetts commercial health insurance market. The dashboard, which is available online, has...
Solutions to Health Care Price Variations Show Divide
June 29, 2021
Lawrence General Hospital receives around $100 from insurers for performing a chest X-ray, while Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital gets $180, Sen. Barry Finegold told his fellow lawmakers on Tuesday. "I ask...
CHIA Report: For Many, Having Health Insurance is Not Enough
April 29, 2021
While Massachusetts ranks high among the states in terms of residents with health insurance, one in four insured residents here reported forgoing health care that they felt was needed due...
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...