High-cost drugs push MassHealth pharmacy tab up $350 million
Healey moves to grow behavioral health workforce as access lags
Mass. hospital CEOs' pay packages rose again in 2024
How much and why premiums are going up for small businesses in 2027
“We are seeing a growth of self-insured “level funded” small group options, from 2 percent in 2021 to over 11 percent in 2025 (based on the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) Enrollment Trends Databook as of September 2025). These products are medically underwritten which pulls small groups with favorable risk out of the merged market risk pool, leading to a deterioration of the fully insured merged market risk pool and worsening affordability for individuals and small businesses who remain in the merged market.” -Mass General Brigham Health Plan, Inc., Massachusetts
Tufts Medicine CEO departs amid ongoing financial struggles
Tufts Medicine reported an operating loss of 2.9% in its quarterly report for the period ending on March 31, according to the Center for Health Information and Analysis.
Healey announces first steps to lower health care costs, investment in primary care
Primary care made up 8.4% of MassHealth spending in 2024, the highest spending category, according to the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis....
House votes unanimously to steer more spending to primary care
The House envisions the state gradually spending 15% of all healthcare dollars on primary care by 2036. Currently, just 6.6% of total commercial healthcare expenditures flow toward primary care, according to a dashboard from the Center for Health Information and Analysis.
Half of all nursing homes in Massachusetts are understaffed
According to figures provided by the Center for Health Information and Analysis, that (figure) amounts to just 0.5% of the $2.3 billion in revenue that Massachusetts nursing homes received from MassHealth.
$170m in medical debt erased for 140,000 Eastern Mass. residents in nonprofit deal
More than 12% of state residents have medical debt, according to the Center for Health Information and Analysis’ 2023 Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey.
Massachusetts Senate wants to address primary-care doctor shortage - The New Bedford Light
30% of Massachusetts residents who have had difficulty accessing primary care, according to a 2025 report from the Center for Health Information and Analysis....Meanwhile, only 6.6% of commercial healthcare spending in Massachusetts was directed to primary care in 2024, according to a report from the Center for Health Information and Analysis.
Mass. health care faces ‘crisis’ after Supreme Court ruling ends TPS for Haitians
The state’s Center for Health Information and Analysis found the need for nurses is highest in nursing homes, with a 26% nursing vacancy rate.
Mass. tying medical debt credit ban proposal to provider licensing
The biennial Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey found that 13.5% of residents had family medical debt, with the vast majority incurring debt while they and all their household family members had insurance coverage...according to the survey conducted by the Center for Health Information and Analysis.
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