Author: Massachusetts. Health Planning and Policy CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Health Care Expenditures in Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts. Health Planning and Policy CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Methodology Paper: Massachusetts Total Health Care Expenditures
Author: Massachusetts. Center for Health Information and AnalysisPublisher:
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Category : Medical care, Cost of
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
This paper provides an overview of the components and data sources of total health care expenditures (THCE) and describes the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis' methodologies in calculating THCE and its growth.
Massachusetts Health Care Cost Trends
Author: Health Care Expenditures in Massachusetts, 1978 Update
Author: Massachusetts. Health Policy GroupPublisher:
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Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Expenditures of General Hospitals in Massachusetts by Substate Region, Area, City and Town
Author: Massachusetts. Office of Comprehensive Health PlanningPublisher:
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Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Health Care Costs in Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts Rate Setting CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages :
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Massachusetts Health Care Cost Trends
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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The Massachusetts health care system is a critical component of the state's economy. Health care is the state's top industry, the largest employer of Massachusetts residents, and accounts for over 13 percent of its $365 billion Gross State Product (GSP). The Commonwealth Fund ranks Massachusetts first in terms of access to care and seventh overall among states on its State Scorecard, which measures health system performance. Massachusetts hospitals are often cited as among the best in the nation in terms of the quality of health care services provided, scoring higher than national average on treatment of major conditions. Furthermore, Massachusetts health insurers are consistently rated among the top ten best plans in each category nationwide. At the same time, Massachusetts is grappling with escalating health care costs, which are consuming a greater portion of the economy and lowering real wage growth. Some of the cost growth is driven by system-wide challenges, such as an aging population and the greater use and availability of increasingly complex levels of medical care, much of which can be uncoordinated. To that point, Massachusetts ranks in the lowest quartile of states for avoidable hospital use and costs on the Commonwealth Fund State Scorecard. However, some challenges, such as those that stem from the structure of the health care market place, are unique to Massachusetts and must be considered when identifying strategies to mitigate health care cost growth. This report examines the factors that contribute to high health care costs in Massachusetts, including the structure of the health care system and the payment methods currently used by Massachusetts health insurers. Understanding these factors will better prepare the Commonwealth to evaluate and develop reforms that have the potential to simultaneously contain cost growth and improve quality. Data describing the Massachusetts health care system are drawn from various published sources. Data on payment methods are based on the results of a 2009 questionnaire administered for the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, in which Massachusetts insurers documented the ways in which they pay hospitals, physicians, and intermediary organizations (medical groups, Independent Practice Associations [IPAs] and physician-hospital organizations [PHOs]).
Massachusetts Health Expenditures Accelerating
Author: Massachusetts. Division of Health Care Finance and PolicyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 5
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