The report found the affiliation:
➡️has the potential to increase access to adult primary care services
➡️is likely to increase commercial healthcare spending by approximately $40.2 million annually by year three of the transaction
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The HPC issued the preliminary cost and market impact review of the proposed contracting affiliation between MGB and CVS MinuteClinic.
📋Read more: masshpc.gov/news/press-r...
📊Explore the preliminary report: masshpc.gov/publications...
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The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission Board voted to maintain the health care cost growth benchmark at 3.6% for calendar year 2027.
🔗 Read more: masshpc.gov/news/press-r...
🎥Watch a short video explaining the Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark process: youtu.be/hL4e-YbXwk0?...
Watch live! The Health Policy Commission Board meeting starts now.
💻Livestream: www.youtube.com/live/nl9Ctqd...
#HealthPolicy
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Join the virtual info session for the new Promoting Appropriate Transitions to Home (PATHways) investment program!
➡️Register: masshpc.gov/pathways-info
📆Wednesday, April 29th
⏰12:00-1:00 PM
🔗Learn more: masshpc.gov/cdt/investme...
HPC leadership smiling in Faneuil Hall
Speakers on stage at Faneuil Hall
Today, the HPC was proud to join the twentieth anniversary of health care reform in Massachusetts celebration hosted by the @healthconnector.bsky.social.
Read HPC Executive Director David Seltz’s statement on the reform milestone: masshpc.gov/news/press-r...
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Register now for the HPC Behavioral Health Workforce Center’s upcoming event, Behavioral Health Care Under Pressure in Massachusetts: Policy Solutions for a Sustainable Workforce.
📆: 9:00 am – 12 pm, Thursday, May 7th
🔗Register and learn more: masshpc.gov/BHWC26
Live now: Watch the Primary Care Task Force meeting!
🔗Watch livestream: www.youtube.com/live/IEFN1je...
#PrimaryCare #HealthPolicy
Graphic reading PATHways investment program
📢New investment program opportunity 📢: The HPC has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the new Promoting Appropriate Transitions to Home (PATHways) investment program!
Learn more about the program and an upcoming informational session: masshpc.gov/cdt/investme...
The HPC’s Board will vote to determine the 2027 Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark at their board meeting on April 16. More details on our upcoming public meetings here: masshpc.gov/sites/defaul...
Thank you to Senator Cindy Friedman and Representative John Lawn, Chairs of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, HCF members, everyone who provided public testimony, and to you for following along for the HPC’s Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark Hearing today!
Image of a slide that says: Hearing to Determine the 2027 Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark / Massachusetts Spending Trends: Drivers and Implications for Affordability / David Auerbach, Ph.D., Senior Director of Reserach and Cost Trends, HPC
The HPC’s Senior Director of Research and Cost Trends, Dr. David Auerbach, shares findings on the impact of Massachusetts cost trends on affordability.
@chiamass.bsky.social Acting Executive Director and Chief of Staff Andrew Jackmauh now presents findings from CHIA’s 2026 Annual Report.
Read the report: www.chiamass.gov/annual-report/
HPC Executive Director David Seltz now provides an overview of the Cost Growth Benchmark.
Watch this short video to learn more about the benchmarking process: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL4e...
Benchmark hearing graphic, all information available online
Follow the Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark Hearing TODAY at noon!
Watch live and learn more: masshpc.gov/meetings/ben...
📢Live now: Tune in to the Primary Care Task Force: Workforce Workgroup Meeting.
Members will discuss addressing the administrative burden facing primary care providers.
🔗www.youtube.com/live/ELfYv_9zoW0
#PrimaryCare
HPC staff seated at table providing testimony
Thank you to the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Ways and Means for inviting the HPC to testify on the agency’s work to make health care more affordable, transparent, and equitable for all Massachusetts residents.
Watch the testimony:
malegislature.gov/Events/Heari...
Graph depicting percent of ED boarding visits from 2020-2024 in MA
More than 1 in 3 behavioral health patients who visited the emergency department in MA boarded in 2024 – remaining in the ED for 12 or more hours awaiting further treatment.
📊Explore more in "Emergency Department Boarding in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts": masshpc.gov/publications...
An image of Beverly Hospital, one of five HEART-BP awardee profiles. It includes an overview of their BEACON remote blood pressure monitoring program, their health equity approaches, quality improvement strategies, a map of their location, and their program duration.
These profiles highlight health equity and quality improvement strategies being used to improve access, experience, and outcomes for birthing people with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Learn more about the HEART-BP awardees: masshpc.gov/publications...
The HPC has released the awardee profiles of the Hypertensive disorders Equitably Addressed with Remote Technology for Birthing People (HEART-BP) Investment Program.
📢Live now: Tune in to the Maternal Health Access and Birthing Patient Safety Task Force Meeting.
🔗 www.youtube.com/live/wTDI7T2...
#MaternalHealth
CHIA's Annual Report highlights that health care cost growth is continuing at an alarming pace.
HPC Executive Director David Seltz said, “These trends are not just numbers – they have real consequences for our residents."
Read his full statement: masshpc.gov/news/press-r...
Live now: Watch the Primary Care Task Force meeting!
Members will discuss payment models to increase public and private reimbursement for primary care services, and health plan design impact on primary care access and equity.
🔗www.youtube.com/live/XQ2PDG_XqNc
Health Care Workforce Survey Dashboard
𝙉𝙚𝙬! CHIA has released results from the latest Massachusetts Health Care and Human Services Workforce Survey (MHCW).
See key findings for 13 sectors and statewide in an interactive dashboard: tinyurl.com/3y9kmdeb
I thought it was love
My heart felt spring-loaded
Turns out our relationship
Was significantly upcoded
Thanks to Andrew Carleen @masshpc.bsky.social 💕
Read the rest of our favorite health policy valentines submitted by readers ⤵️
Health policy valentine reading: Take my handkerchief Take my cough drop wrappers, too For I can’t help coming down with the flu… Vaccinate or find yourself in my predicament, too
💝 Take my handkerchief
Take my cough drop wrappers, too
For I can’t help coming down with the flu…
Vaccinate or find yourself in my predicament, too
#HealthPolicyValentines
Health policy valentine reading: Roses are red, Daisies are yellow, In a complex health care market, You make things clearer, RPO
💟 Roses are red,
Daisies are yellow,
In a complex health care market,
You make things clearer, RPO
#HealthPolicyValentines
Learn more about the HPC’s Registration of Provider Organizations (RPO): masshpc.gov/moat/rpo
Health policy valentine reading: Roses are red The medicine I practice is preventive I’ll care for you No matter the financial incentive
💌 Roses are red
The medicine I practice is preventive
I’ll care for you
No matter the financial incentive
#HealthPolicyValentines
Health policy valentine reading: I should call you my deductible, The way I spend all year yearning to reach you.
💜 I should call you my deductible,
The way I spend all year yearning to reach you.
#HealthPolicyValentines