Relative Price and Provider Price Variation

For chronic care, rehabilitation, and behavioral health hospitals (including private psychiatric hospitals, substance use disorder facilities, and dedicated behavioral health units within acute hospitals), CHIA calculates payer-specific RP, which enables comparison of provider prices within a payer’s network of hospitals that provide similar services. Payer-specific RP is also calculated for physician organizations.

For acute hospitals, in addition to payer-specific RP, CHIA calculates cross-payer statewide relative price (S-RP), which enables comparison of acute hospital prices across all commercial payers.

Data does not exist for all combinations of filter selections in the interactive dashboard. Where no data exists, an intentionally blank page will appear. Hospital cohorts are mutually exclusive and include academic medical centers, community hospitals, community-high public payer hospitals, teaching hospitals, and specialty acute hospitals. S-RP results for specialty acute hospitals are not shown; these hospitals are not comparable because of their unique patient populations and/or services. See the methodology report for more detailed information.

Note: Massachusetts Hospital Profiles provide descriptive and comparative information on acute and non-acute hospitals. Relative price levels for the top 3 payers at each hospital are included among the points of comparison.