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Interactive Data and Analysis

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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Primary care and behavioral health care (PCBH) comprise an array of vital services that can meaningfully shape patient outcomes and are often associated with lower health care costs and higher quality. However, comprehensive data on expenditures for these services in Massachusetts has been limited. To build a foundational dataset that can support future policy initiatives and provide insight into the Commonwealth’s investment in these areas, CHIA collected data on payments made by commercial health plans to health care providers delivering primary care and behavioral health services. 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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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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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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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....