Interactive Data and Analysis

Many of CHIA's recent reports include online interactive dashboards to help better visualize data and perform customizable analyses.

For example, to advance transparency, CHIA created an interactive prescription drug use and spending dashboard for exploring prescription drug spending as well as the associated conditions these drugs treat. For this analysis, CHIA used a subset of commercial pharmacy claims from our All Payer Claims Database (APCD) to identify high volume and high cost drugs.

CHIA also recently developed a dashboard for each of the Commonwealth's 393 nursing facilities that lets users delve into areas such as financial margins, occupancy, and nursing hours.

Online interactive technology also allows for efficient and extensive profiling and analysis into both acute and non-acute hospitals across Massachusetts, Additionally, our Focus on Provider Quality efforts lets users easily research into topics like medication safety, maternity-related care, and potentially preventable hospital admissions.

CHIA looks to continue and expand the use of online tools in its reporting to help policymakers, insurers, health care providers, employers, and researchers more easily explore CHIA’s comprehensive data resources.

The interactive applications outlined and linked below promote transparency and a better understanding of the Massachusetts health care system.

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Prescription Drugs (What is this?)

To advance transparency into prescription drug use, CHIA published an interactive dashboard that includes an expenditure overview, therapeutic class breakdown, and drug use trends. This dashboard lets users explore into the drivers of prescription drug spending as well as the associated conditions these drugs treat. Read more...

Hospital Profiles (published January 2020) (What is this?)

Massachusetts Hospital Profiles provide descriptive and comparative information on acute and non-acute hospitals based on hospital characteristics, services, payer mix, utilization trends, cost trends, financial performance, and quality over a five year period. This publication includes an individual profile for each acute hospital, a consolidated profile for each acute and non-acute hospital cohort, and a comprehensive databook. Additionally, an interactive dashboard lets users select data views by individual hospital, hospital type, and hospital health system. Read more

Massachusetts Nursing Facilities (Published November 2019) (What is this?)

Nursing facilities serve an important role in the continuum of health care services in Massachusetts. To better understand this component of the health care system, CHIA's initial report in this aspect of the Massachusetts health care system examines the Commonwealth's nursing facilities at an industry level, as well as by analytic cohorts, on measures of utilization, financial performance, and quality of care over a five-year period (2013–2017) Read more....

Hospital Health System Profiles (Published September 2019) (What is this?)

The FY 2018 Hospital Health System (HHS) profiles, an aspect of the FY 2018 Annual Acute Hospital and Health System Financial Performance Report, provide a summary of financial performance and relative size of component entities for the hospital health system and their affiliated acute hospitals, physician organizations, and health plans. CHIA examines whether organizations are associated with one or more acute care hospitals, and differentiates Massachusetts hospitals solely owned within the Commonwealth from nationally owned and operated hospitals.

This report’s interactive dashboard highlights the system profile, their share of the statewide acute hospital utilization and revenue measures, and their relative size in comparison to the other Massachusetts hospital health systems. Read more....

Individual Hospital Financial Trend Analysis (Published September 2019) (What is this?)

The Individual Hospital Financial Trend Analysis, an aspect of the FY 2018 Annual Acute Hospital and Health System Financial Performance Report, provides information on profitability, liquidity, and solvency metrics as well as other pertinent financial data including revenue, profit or loss, and net assets from FY 2014 through FY 2018. The report's interactive financial trend analysis dashboard allows you to select individual hospital information from the dashboard's dropdown menu. Read more....

Enrollment Trends in Massachusetts (Published August 2019) (What is this?)

Enrollment Trends monitors health insurance coverage in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where coverage is defined by unique Massachusetts residents with primary, medical membership in the 14 largest commercial payers, MassHealth (Medicaid), or Medicare. Read more

Quality of Care in the Commonwealth (Published May 2019) (What is this?)

CHIA monitors and reports on the quality of care provided in the Massachusetts health care system using a standardized set of metrics, the Commonwealth's Standard Quality Measure Set (SQMS).

Updated in May 2019, the latest A Focus on Provider Quality includes an interactive dashboard. The report is also accompanied by an executive summary, a series of databooks, an infographic of key finding, and a technical appendix. Read more...

Relative Price and Provider Price Variation (Published May 2019) (What is this?)

Health care prices for similar health care services vary considerably both in Massachusetts and across the United States. CHIA reports on this variation using a methodology that accounts for price differences that might be justified by:

o   The patient's illness or complexity of care needed

o   The type of commercial health insurance plan

o   The array of medical services supported at the institution

New for the May 2019 report, CHIA presents relative price information in a series of customizable interactive graphics. Read more....

Hospital-Specific Readmissions Profiles (Published March 2019) (What is this?)

This series (updated March 19, 2019) provides in-depth readmissions information for each Massachusetts acute care hospital, highlighting data from State Fiscal Year 2017. For the first time, this series includes interactive data and graphical results. The online application enables a richer view of hospital data, as well as allowing for streamlined readmissions comparisons between hospitals and/or at the statewide level. Read more....

Massachusetts Patient Origins (Published January 2018) (What is this?)

The Massachusetts Patient Origins map identifies the areas from which hospitals and hospital systems draw their patients by illustrating the distribution of hospital inpatient discharges in 2016 by patient zip code, for each acute care hospital and 11 hospital systems in Massachusetts. Read more....