Massachusetts

This Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation report provides an update on trends in Massachusetts since fall 2006 and an overview of the circumstances of working-age adults in the state as of fall 2010 that provides a baseline for understanding changes under the ACA in Massachusetts.

This report examines the critical need for risk adjustment in programs serving persons dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid and describes federal and state experience implementing risk adjustment models.

The Massachusetts Health Connector submitted a Level One Exchange Establishment Grant to HHS on December 27, 2011.

This toolkit offers ideas and resources to help states determine health benefit designs to be offered on the state health insurance exchanges.

This report highlights the progress Massachusetts has made with their landmark 2006 health reform initiative.

This report examines prices that private health plans paid for high-volume inpatient hospital services, outpatient hospital services, and physician and other professional services, finding significant price variation for every service.

This report by Massachusetts Division of Health Care Policy and Finance, documents the major trends in total health care spending for care covered by fully insured and self-insured comprehensive private health plans in Massachusetts from 2007 to 2009, as well as trends in Medicare and MassHealth (the Commonwealth’s Medicaid program) spending from 2007 to 2008.

Timelines of schedules for implementing the provions of the ACA by quarter.

This policy brief provides an update on the estimates of the uninsurance rate in Massachusetts as of Spring 2010.

A report created by the University of Massachusetts Medical School on behalf of several New England States for the early innovator grant opportunity.