What exactly is the health care cost growth benchmark, and how does this benchmark provide a measurable goal for health care spending? Watch the HPC Short: The Massachusetts Cost Growth Benchmark to learn more about the benchmarking process, how this motivates action to moderate health care spending growth, and about the implications of high health care costs on Massachusetts residents. #healthpolicy #healthcare #costofcare
Health Policy Commission
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The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC), established in 2012, is an independent state agency charged with monitoring health care spending growth in Massachusetts and providing data-driven policy recommendations regarding health care delivery and payment system reform. The HPC’s mission is to advance a more transparent, accountable, and innovative health care system through independent policy leadership and investment programs. The agency’s main responsibilities are managed by HPC staff and overseen by an 11-member board of commissioners. HPC staff and commissioners work collaboratively to monitor and improve the performance of the health care system. Key activities include setting the health care cost growth benchmark; setting and monitoring provider and payer performance relative to the health care cost growth benchmark; creating standards for care delivery systems that are accountable to better meet patients’ medical, behavioral, and social needs; analyzing the impact of health care market transactions on cost, quality, and access; and investing in community health care delivery and innovations.
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http://www.mass.gov/hpc
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- 51-200 employees
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- Boston, Massachusetts
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- 2012
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50 Milk Street
8th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02109, US
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Health Policy Commission reposted this
As part of its series exploring 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘀, CHIA has published its first-ever interactive dashboard on outpatient observation visits with data through December 2023, which updates previous reporting that covered the period FFY 2016-2019. Observation visits are classified as outpatient care and may serve a variety of functions, including the assessment of patients who may require additional diagnostic or therapeutic treatment beyond care in an emergency department, but do not require admission to the inpatient setting. The interactive dashboard will be updated quarterly to offer timely insights into utilization and visit characteristics at a statewide level and for select analyses at the hospital level. These data will be updated as more complete information becomes available. This update also includes a summary, accompanying databook, and technical appendix. 𝗦𝗲𝗲 https://lnkd.in/dAYwekdG
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The Health Policy Commission (HPC) is searching for a Research Analyst for the HPC’s NEW Behavioral Health Workforce Center! The Behavioral Health Research Analyst will conduct research to inform the improvement of the supply, distribution, and diversity of the behavioral health workforce in Massachusetts. Learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/ehf7Chmu #hiring #healthpolicy #research #dataanalyst #behavioralhealth
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The Health Policy Commission (HPC) is searching for a Director for the HPC’s NEW Behavioral Health Workforce Center! This is an opportunity to establish a team that will analyze and monitor the behavioral health workforce in Massachusetts, in partnership with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services. The Director will lead research on long-standing behavioral health workforce challenges and develop policy recommendations to tackle these ongoing issues. Apply today to join the HPC in advancing a more transparent, accountable, and equitable health care system through independent policy leadership. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eKRSDYCK #hiring #healthpolicy #healthcare #healthresearch #behavioralhealth #publichealth
Director, Behavioral Health Workforce Center - Massachusetts Health Policy Commission
massachusettshealthpolicycommission.applytojob.com
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The Health Policy Commission (HPC) is searching for a Research Analyst for the HPC’s NEW Behavioral Health Workforce Center! The Behavioral Health Research Analyst will conduct research to inform the improvement of the supply, distribution, and diversity of the behavioral health workforce in Massachusetts. Learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/ehf7Chmu #hiring #healthpolicy #research #dataanalyst #behavioralhealth
Behavioral Health Research Analyst - Massachusetts Health Policy Commission
massachusettshealthpolicycommission.applytojob.com
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Last week, HPC Executive Director David Seltz was honored to speak on a panel at the 2024 Rhode Island Health Care Spending and Quality Public Forum. Watch Director Seltz’s panel, Discussion with State Leadership from Massachusetts and Connecticut: https://lnkd.in/d4GKg8R9 #healthpolicy
2024 Rhode Island Health Care Spending and Quality Public Forum
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Join us TODAY at 2 pm ET for a webinar: Multiple Marginalized Identities: Addressing the Discrimination Faced by People of Color with Substance Use Disorder in the Perinatal Period. Panelists will share and discuss findings from the Inviting Narratives of SUD treatment in the Perinatal period: a focus on Race and Equity (INSPiRE) Project. The event will feature a panel of peers with lived experience and experts in the fields of health and racial equity, who will discuss clinical and policy changes needed to address inequities in perinatal substance use disorder treatment. ➡️Thursday, May 23rd 2-3 PM ET Register to attend: https://lnkd.in/evRWZWnZ
Join the HPC and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for a webinar: Multiple Marginalized Identities: Addressing the Discrimination Faced by People of Color with Substance Use Disorder in the Perinatal Period. The webinar will focus on findings of the Inviting Narratives of SUD treatment in the Perinatal period: a focus on Race and Equity (INSPiRE) Project, a community-engaged project aimed at understanding the perspectives of women of color with #SubstanceUseDisorder during pregnancy and postpartum. Experts will also discuss needed clinical and policy changes to address inequities in perinatal substance use disorder care and treatment ➡️Thursday, May 23rd 2-3 PM ET Register via Zoom: https://t.co/TSAv9IwRVs #maternalhealth #SUD #healthequity
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Register to attend our upcoming webinar with Massachusetts Department of Public Health featuring Dr. Allison Bryant Mantha, Latisha Goullaud, Julyvette V. Vazquez, Ynelissa Ramos, Dr. Sabrina Selk, Dr. Hafsatou Diop, MD, MPH, and Dr. Davida Schiff. Panelists will share and discuss findings from the Inviting Narratives of SUD treatment in the Perinatal period: a focus on Race and Equity (INSPiRE) Project, a qualitative research project led by peers with lived experience. Attendees will also get a first look at a newly-published manuscript and infographic highlighting that work. ➡️Thursday, May 23rd 2-3 PM ET Register via Zoom: https://t.co/TSAv9IwRVs #maternalhealth #SUD #healthequity
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The Health Policy Commission (HPC) is searching for a Director for the HPC’s NEW Behavioral Health Workforce Center! This is an opportunity to establish a team that will analyze and monitor the behavioral health workforce in Massachusetts, in partnership with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services. The Director will lead research on long-standing behavioral health workforce challenges and develop policy recommendations to tackle these ongoing issues. Apply today to join the HPC in advancing a more transparent, accountable, and equitable health care system through independent policy leadership. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eKRSDYCK #hiring #healthpolicy #healthcare #healthresearch #behavioralhealth #publichealth
Director, Behavioral Health Workforce Center - Massachusetts Health Policy Commission
massachusettshealthpolicycommission.applytojob.com
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HPC Executive Director David Seltz was proud to present the keynote address at this week’s Association for Behavioral Healthcare annual meeting. Thank you to the Association for Behavioral Healthcare for their dedicated work supporting community-based mental health and addiction treatment services!
It was great to see so many of our members this week at our Annual Business Meeting. Thanks to Mass. Health Policy Commission Executive Director David Seltz, who acknowledged ABH for sharing vacancy data and spoke about the need to invest more in behavioral healthcare. #behavioralhealthmatters