How the Massachusetts HPC Contains Health Care Spending Growth

In 2012, Massachusetts established the Health Policy Commission to lead collective efforts to make health care more affordable for its ...

Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark

From 2013 through 2017, the benchmark had to be set equal to the growth rate of potential gross state product (PGSP), or 3.6%. · From 2018 through 2022, the HPC ...

CHIA Publishes the Annual Report on the Performance of the ...

In 2021, Massachusetts total health care expenditures (THCE) increased to $67.9 billion. ... and the recording will be posted to the HPC's YouTube channel ...

The Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark

Annual growth in per capita commercial health care spending, Massachusetts and the U.S., 2006-2022. Notes: Massachusetts data include full- ...

The Massachusetts Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark - YouTube

... have on the residents of the Commonwealth. For more about the ... HPC Shorts Episode 6: The Massachusetts Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark.

Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark Frequently Asked Questions

Massachusetts has averaged annual THCE growth ... The HPC has recommended several legislative changes in its annual cost trends reports, including updating.

How the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission Is Fostering a ...

stakeholders in a shared cost-containment agenda. The average rate of growth in total health care spending per capita in Massachusetts has been below the. HPC's ...

Annual Report on the Performance of the Massachusetts Health ...

Total Health Care Expenditures (THCE) in Massachusetts totaled $71.7 billion in 2022. From 2021 to 2022, THCE per capita increased 5.8% to ...

Introduction to the Health Policy Commission and the Path to ...

How states use cost-growth benchmark programs to contain health care costs ... Total health care spending growth in Massachusetts was above the ...

Health care spending takes dramatic leap of 5.8%

Total spending on health care in Massachusetts raced past $70 billion, bounding from $67.8 billion in 2021 to $71.7 billion in 2022, the HPC ...

The Massachusetts Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark and ...

The HPC achieved early success shortly after it began operating in 2012 by using its accountability tools and authority to effectively persuade ...

Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark

community hospitals has steadily declined. Sources: HPC analysis of Massachusetts All-Payer Claims Database, 2014; Registration of Provider Organizations ...

HEALTH CARE COST TRENDS REPORT - Mass.gov

Improve Benefit Design and Cost-Sharing. As the number of Massachusetts consumers with high-deductible health plans. (HDHPs) has sharply increased, the HPC has ...

The Massachusetts Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark and ...

Massachusetts' law allows the HPC to hold some payers and certain types of providers accountable for excessive spending growth, but it excludes ...

Healthcare spending, drug costs, premiums spike in Massachusetts

The Bay State's total healthcare expenditures per capita increased by 5.8% from 2021 to 2022, well above the national rate of 4.1% and nearly double the 3.1% ...

How Massachusetts' Benchmark Impacted Healthcare Cost Growth

Massachusetts' statewide benchmark for healthcare cost growth has generally helped curb increases in healthcare spending, but its influence has dwindled over ...

Report: Mass. seeing billions in 'excessive' health care spending

A majority of the excessive spending the HPC flagged was on prescription drugs. ...

Let's Cut $1.75 Billion in Waste - Massachusetts Hospital Association

In the Health Policy Commission's (HPC's) 2023 Annual Cost Trends report that is the focus of a hearing this week, the HPC identifies “ ...

Massachusetts Health Policy Commission Takes Steps to Hold High ...

In making this decision, the HPC Board found that MGB's spending performance has likely impacted the state's ability to meet its health care cost growth ...

Massachusetts Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark Factsheets - 3

Although the HPC has authority to review and analyze the impact of proposed market changes, the HPC's process is separate from and in addition to the authority ...