Massachusetts
| Resource | Category | Carriers | Purpose |
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| CompareCare CompareCare's mission is to provide Massachusetts health care consumers the guidance and tools they need to become active partners in navigating ...
State: Massachusetts |
Consumers | Commercial | Cost, Quality |
| Individual Purchasers in the Massachusetts Health Care System In the 2017 Annual Report on the Performance of the Massachusetts Health Care System, the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) identified...
State: Massachusetts |
Consumers, Employers, Population Health, Researchers | Commercial | Cost, Utilization |
| Association Between Receipt of a Medically Tailored Meal Program and Health Care Use Findings: In this cohort study of 1020 adults that used a combined instrumental variable analysis and matching approach, participation in a medically ...
State: Massachusetts |
Consumers, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers | Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare | Cost, Utilization |
| Touchpoints - Opportunities to predict and prevent opioid overdose: A cohort study This study uses data from the Massachusetts APCD. Researchers found found eight touchpoints which were associated with increased risk of fatal opioid ...
State: Massachusetts |
Health Reform, Population Health, Researchers | Commercial | Utilization |
| Massachusetts Commercial Prescription Drug Use and Spending, 2015-2017 This is the second study on prescription drug use and spending released from CHIA. For this analysis, CHIA used a subset of commercial pharmacy claims...
State: Massachusetts |
Consumers, Health Reform, Researchers | Commercial | Cost, Utilization |
| Small-Area Variation in the Care of Low-Risk Neonates in Massachusetts and Texas A research study that measures special care days (SCDs) (intermediate or intensive), length of stay, and readmission rates among low-risk neonates acr...
State: Massachusetts, Texas |
Providers, Researchers | Commercial | Quality, Utilization |
| BRCA1/2 testing among young women with breast cancer in Massachusetts, 2010-2013: An observational study using state cancer registry and All-Payer claims data Analysis linking Massachusetts' All-Payer Claims Database with Massachusetts Cancer Registry data to assess factors associated with BRCA1/2 testi...
State: Massachusetts |
Consumers, Employers, Population Health, Providers, Researchers | Commercial, Medicaid | Quality |
| The New England States’ All-Payer Report on Primary Care Payments The purpose of this report is to use standardized data to identify the percentage of all-payer primary care spending relative to overall healthcare sp...
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Consumers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Providers, Researchers | Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare | Utilization |
| Price Effects Of Vertical Integration And Joint Contracting Between Physicians And Hospitals In Massachusetts We examined trends, geographic variation, and price effects of vertical integration and joint contracting between physicians and hospitals, using phys...
State: Massachusetts |
Consumers, Providers, Researchers | Quality | |
| Transitions in Health Insurance During the Perinatal Period Among Patients With Continuous Insurance Coverage Although health insurance continuity is important during the perinatal period to improve birth outcomes and reduce maternal morbidity and mortality, i...
State: Massachusetts |
Consumers, Insurance Department, Population Health, Researchers | Commercial, Medicaid | Utilization |