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

CHIA will 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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As part of CHIA's ongoing work to monitor health care quality in the Commonwealth, A Focus on Provider Quality: Selected Clinical Measures, 2018 and 2020 examines performance across a subset of metrics from the NCQA Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®). This analysis explores the clinical performance of care delivered to Massachusetts commercial HMO/POS members during 2020, both at the statewide and primary care medical group levels. Read more...

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This report provides a baseline assessment of gaps in health insurance coverage, access, utilization, and affordability across eight regions in Massachusetts. To advance the goal of health care equity in Massachusetts, CHIA examines how geographic differences impact residents’ health insurance coverage and access to care in the Commonwealth.

CHIA’s first report on health care equity, examined disparities in coverage and care by age, race/ethnicity, and family income groups. Read more.....

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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....

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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...

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CHIA has developed a quarterly update series to complement the Massachusetts Acute Care Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data (FFY 2016-2019) report. These quarterly updates rely on interim data to present analyses on a monthly basis. This most recent update includes new data for October-December 2021. Read more....

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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 September 2021, the latest A Focus on Provider Quality includes an interactive dashboard. The report is also accompanied by an executive summary, a series of databooks and a technical appendix. Read more...

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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

 

This publication includes customizable interactive graphics along with an executive summary and databook. Read more....

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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....

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As part of CHIA’s ongoing work to monitor health care quality in the Commonwealth, A Focus on Provider Quality: Selected Clinical Measures, 2018 examines performance across a subset of metrics from the NCQA Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®). This analysis explores the clinical performance of care delivered to Massachusetts commercial HMO/POS members during 2018 (based on NCQA HEDIS 2019 specifications), both at the statewide and primary care medical group levels. Read More...

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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...

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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....