MA Health Policy Commission
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The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) is committed to better health and better care – at a lower cost – for all residents of the Commonwealth.
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We mourn the loss of Stuart H. Altman, Ph.D., a leader in health policy and economics and the inaugural chair of the HPC.
“Dr. Altman dedicated his life to a health care system that is affordable and accessible for all,” said HPC Executive Director David Seltz.
“Dr. Altman dedicated his life to a health care system that is affordable and accessible for all,” said HPC Executive Director David Seltz.
HPC Statement on Stuart H. Altman, Ph.D. | Massachusetts Health Policy Commission
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January 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
We mourn the loss of Stuart H. Altman, Ph.D., a leader in health policy and economics and the inaugural chair of the HPC.
“Dr. Altman dedicated his life to a health care system that is affordable and accessible for all,” said HPC Executive Director David Seltz.
“Dr. Altman dedicated his life to a health care system that is affordable and accessible for all,” said HPC Executive Director David Seltz.
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Apply today for the Health Policy Commission’s (HPC) 2026 Summer Fellowship program!
📆 Deadline: January 20th
🔗 Apply: massachusettshealthpolicycommission.applytojob.com/apply/dLMSLR...
📖 Read the 2025 Fellowship Report to learn more: masshpc.gov/publications...
📆 Deadline: January 20th
🔗 Apply: massachusettshealthpolicycommission.applytojob.com/apply/dLMSLR...
📖 Read the 2025 Fellowship Report to learn more: masshpc.gov/publications...
December 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Apply today for the Health Policy Commission’s (HPC) 2026 Summer Fellowship program!
📆 Deadline: January 20th
🔗 Apply: massachusettshealthpolicycommission.applytojob.com/apply/dLMSLR...
📖 Read the 2025 Fellowship Report to learn more: masshpc.gov/publications...
📆 Deadline: January 20th
🔗 Apply: massachusettshealthpolicycommission.applytojob.com/apply/dLMSLR...
📖 Read the 2025 Fellowship Report to learn more: masshpc.gov/publications...
Apply today for the Health Policy Commission’s (HPC) 2026 Summer Fellowship program!
📆 Deadline: January 20th
🔗 Apply: massachusettshealthpolicycommission.applytojob.com/apply/dLMSLR...
📖 Read the 2025 Fellowship Report to learn more: masshpc.gov/publications...
📆 Deadline: January 20th
🔗 Apply: massachusettshealthpolicycommission.applytojob.com/apply/dLMSLR...
📖 Read the 2025 Fellowship Report to learn more: masshpc.gov/publications...
December 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Apply today for the Health Policy Commission’s (HPC) 2026 Summer Fellowship program!
📆 Deadline: January 20th
🔗 Apply: massachusettshealthpolicycommission.applytojob.com/apply/dLMSLR...
📖 Read the 2025 Fellowship Report to learn more: masshpc.gov/publications...
📆 Deadline: January 20th
🔗 Apply: massachusettshealthpolicycommission.applytojob.com/apply/dLMSLR...
📖 Read the 2025 Fellowship Report to learn more: masshpc.gov/publications...
📊Explore the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission’s (HPC) latest interactive DataPoints issue, Examining the True Costs of Care: Patient Cost Sharing in Massachusetts.
➡️Read more: masshpc.gov/publications...
#HealthPolicy
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#HealthPolicy
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
📊Explore the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission’s (HPC) latest interactive DataPoints issue, Examining the True Costs of Care: Patient Cost Sharing in Massachusetts.
➡️Read more: masshpc.gov/publications...
#HealthPolicy
➡️Read more: masshpc.gov/publications...
#HealthPolicy
The Massachusetts Primary Care Task Force calls for a primary care spending target. This bold action will address systemic underinvestment in primary care and prioritize resident health and health system stability.
🔗Read more: masshpc.gov/sites/defaul...
#PrimaryCare
🔗Read more: masshpc.gov/sites/defaul...
#PrimaryCare
December 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The Massachusetts Primary Care Task Force calls for a primary care spending target. This bold action will address systemic underinvestment in primary care and prioritize resident health and health system stability.
🔗Read more: masshpc.gov/sites/defaul...
#PrimaryCare
🔗Read more: masshpc.gov/sites/defaul...
#PrimaryCare
📢The 2025 Health Care Cost Trends Report calls for recommitment to the health care cost growth benchmark and urgent action to tame growth.
📖Read the report: masshpc.gov/publications...
📊Explore an interactive out-of-pocket spending data overview: masshpc.gov/publications...
📖Read the report: masshpc.gov/publications...
📊Explore an interactive out-of-pocket spending data overview: masshpc.gov/publications...
December 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
📢The 2025 Health Care Cost Trends Report calls for recommitment to the health care cost growth benchmark and urgent action to tame growth.
📖Read the report: masshpc.gov/publications...
📊Explore an interactive out-of-pocket spending data overview: masshpc.gov/publications...
📖Read the report: masshpc.gov/publications...
📊Explore an interactive out-of-pocket spending data overview: masshpc.gov/publications...
Live now: Tune in to the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) Board meeting!
Commissioners will reflect on the Health Care Cost Trends Hearing, review recent health policy action, and issue the 2025 Health Care Cost Trends Report.
Watch: www.youtube.com/live/jckgdR0...
Commissioners will reflect on the Health Care Cost Trends Hearing, review recent health policy action, and issue the 2025 Health Care Cost Trends Report.
Watch: www.youtube.com/live/jckgdR0...
Board Meeting - December 11, 2025
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December 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Live now: Tune in to the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) Board meeting!
Commissioners will reflect on the Health Care Cost Trends Hearing, review recent health policy action, and issue the 2025 Health Care Cost Trends Report.
Watch: www.youtube.com/live/jckgdR0...
Commissioners will reflect on the Health Care Cost Trends Hearing, review recent health policy action, and issue the 2025 Health Care Cost Trends Report.
Watch: www.youtube.com/live/jckgdR0...
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Massachusetts maintains a high rate of health insurance coverage at 97.9%—but health care affordability issues for residents remain. See results of the Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey (MHIS).
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#MassCHIA #HealthData #HealthPolicy #Massachusetts
See: tinyurl.com/bdeh3z7d
#MassCHIA #HealthData #HealthPolicy #Massachusetts
December 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Massachusetts maintains a high rate of health insurance coverage at 97.9%—but health care affordability issues for residents remain. See results of the Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey (MHIS).
See: tinyurl.com/bdeh3z7d
#MassCHIA #HealthData #HealthPolicy #Massachusetts
See: tinyurl.com/bdeh3z7d
#MassCHIA #HealthData #HealthPolicy #Massachusetts
The HPC hosted the 13th annual Health Care Cost Trends Hearing on 11/12. Read the summary and find links to the materials here: masshpc.gov/news/press-r...
2025 Health Care Cost Trends Hearing Recap | Massachusetts Health Policy Commission
On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) hosted its 13th annual Health Care Cost Trends Hearing, titled Working Together to Safeguard the Commonwealth’s Commit...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The HPC hosted the 13th annual Health Care Cost Trends Hearing on 11/12. Read the summary and find links to the materials here: masshpc.gov/news/press-r...
➡️Live now: Watch the Maternal Health Access and Birthing Patient Safety Task Force, co-chaired by the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
🔗Watch live: www.youtube.com/live/6Tx8p3q...
#MaternalHealth #HealthPolicy #HealthEquity
🔗Watch live: www.youtube.com/live/6Tx8p3q...
#MaternalHealth #HealthPolicy #HealthEquity
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December 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
➡️Live now: Watch the Maternal Health Access and Birthing Patient Safety Task Force, co-chaired by the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
🔗Watch live: www.youtube.com/live/6Tx8p3q...
#MaternalHealth #HealthPolicy #HealthEquity
🔗Watch live: www.youtube.com/live/6Tx8p3q...
#MaternalHealth #HealthPolicy #HealthEquity
📢Live now: Tune in to the Primary Care Access, Delivery, and Payment Task Force meeting!
www.youtube.com/live/Q5F0BUe...
www.youtube.com/live/Q5F0BUe...
Primary Care Access, Delivery, and Payment Task Force Meeting - December 3, 2025
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December 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
📢Live now: Tune in to the Primary Care Access, Delivery, and Payment Task Force meeting!
www.youtube.com/live/Q5F0BUe...
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Watch live today: Primary Care Task Force workgroup meetings!
➡️10:30 AM – 12:00 PM ET, Workforce Workgroup Meeting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLYM...
➡️2:30 – 4:00 PM ET, Data and Research Workgroup Meeting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzn3...
#PrimaryCare #HealthPolicy
➡️10:30 AM – 12:00 PM ET, Workforce Workgroup Meeting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLYM...
➡️2:30 – 4:00 PM ET, Data and Research Workgroup Meeting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzn3...
#PrimaryCare #HealthPolicy
Primary Care Task Force Workforce Workgroup
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November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Watch live today: Primary Care Task Force workgroup meetings!
➡️10:30 AM – 12:00 PM ET, Workforce Workgroup Meeting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLYM...
➡️2:30 – 4:00 PM ET, Data and Research Workgroup Meeting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzn3...
#PrimaryCare #HealthPolicy
➡️10:30 AM – 12:00 PM ET, Workforce Workgroup Meeting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLYM...
➡️2:30 – 4:00 PM ET, Data and Research Workgroup Meeting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzn3...
#PrimaryCare #HealthPolicy
Thank you for joining the HPC for the 2025 Health Care Cost Trends Hearing! #CTH25
Find upcoming HPC public meetings online: masshpc.gov/meetings
Find upcoming HPC public meetings online: masshpc.gov/meetings
Meetings | Massachusetts Health Policy Commission
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November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Thank you for joining the HPC for the 2025 Health Care Cost Trends Hearing! #CTH25
Find upcoming HPC public meetings online: masshpc.gov/meetings
Find upcoming HPC public meetings online: masshpc.gov/meetings
Chair Devaux summarizes key themes of the panel including the need for collective efforts to maintain coverage, importance of health planning & HPC's new Office of Health Resource Planning, the need for using data to improve care/lower costs, administrative simplification, & the future of AI #CTH25
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Chair Devaux summarizes key themes of the panel including the need for collective efforts to maintain coverage, importance of health planning & HPC's new Office of Health Resource Planning, the need for using data to improve care/lower costs, administrative simplification, & the future of AI #CTH25
Chair Devaux: What strategies can we pursue to address affordability and access challenges? Reduce coverage losses from OB3, maximize federal resources, strengthen benchmark, payment redesign, health planning, reduce admin complexity, support CHCs, invest in primary care. #CTH25
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Chair Devaux: What strategies can we pursue to address affordability and access challenges? Reduce coverage losses from OB3, maximize federal resources, strengthen benchmark, payment redesign, health planning, reduce admin complexity, support CHCs, invest in primary care. #CTH25
The final panel of the day, “Moving Forward Together: How CEOs are Maintaining a Focus on Affordability in a Time of Uncertainty,” brings together leaders to discuss how organizations are strategically responding in the current, uncertain environment. #CTH25
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The final panel of the day, “Moving Forward Together: How CEOs are Maintaining a Focus on Affordability in a Time of Uncertainty,” brings together leaders to discuss how organizations are strategically responding in the current, uncertain environment. #CTH25
Commissioner Leibman closes out the panel with a forward-looking question: What do we need to be ready for next? Panelists highlight cell and gene therapy – another area where the payment system needs to evolve to meet the science. #CTH25
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Commissioner Leibman closes out the panel with a forward-looking question: What do we need to be ready for next? Panelists highlight cell and gene therapy – another area where the payment system needs to evolve to meet the science. #CTH25
Commissioner Kurpad asks panelists to reflect on experience with GLP-1s: how should we think about affordability, transparency, and pricing for new drugs in the pipeline? #CTH25
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Commissioner Kurpad asks panelists to reflect on experience with GLP-1s: how should we think about affordability, transparency, and pricing for new drugs in the pipeline? #CTH25
Panel 4: “Navigating Pharmaceutical Market Trends: Balancing Innovation and Sustainability” focuses on the evolving dynamics in the pharmaceutical market, spending trends, and organizational work to improve health care affordability, access, and equity. #CTH25
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Panel 4: “Navigating Pharmaceutical Market Trends: Balancing Innovation and Sustainability” focuses on the evolving dynamics in the pharmaceutical market, spending trends, and organizational work to improve health care affordability, access, and equity. #CTH25
Panelists highlight many benefits of Hospital at Home care: better patient and family experience, fewer readmissions or discharges to post-acute settings, lower costs, support for social determinants of health. #CTH25
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Panelists highlight many benefits of Hospital at Home care: better patient and family experience, fewer readmissions or discharges to post-acute settings, lower costs, support for social determinants of health. #CTH25
HPC Executive Director David Seltz now presents, “Health Care Cost Trends in Massachusetts and the Imperative to Advance Affordability.” #CTH25
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
HPC Executive Director David Seltz now presents, “Health Care Cost Trends in Massachusetts and the Imperative to Advance Affordability.” #CTH25
Read the HPC’s policy brief, “Hospital at Home in Massachusetts: Trends in an Emerging Clinical Model” #CTH25 masshpc.gov/publications...
Hospital at Home in Massachusetts: Trends in an Emerging Clinical Model | Massachusetts Health Policy Commission
This HPC policy brief explores how the hospital at home model of care has been implemented in Massachusetts. Through this model, hospitals provide hospital-level services in a patient’s home, rather t...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Read the HPC’s policy brief, “Hospital at Home in Massachusetts: Trends in an Emerging Clinical Model” #CTH25 masshpc.gov/publications...
Watch the HPC’s short video, “Hospital at Home in Massachusetts”: youtu.be/3IIcc7yEB1c?...
HPC Shorts Episode 8: Hospital at Home in Massachusetts
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November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Watch the HPC’s short video, “Hospital at Home in Massachusetts”: youtu.be/3IIcc7yEB1c?...
In the next panel, “Innovation Insights: Transforming Care through Hospital at Home Programs,” leaders from innovative Massachusetts hospital at home programs will discuss the promise of new models of care delivery in the Commonwealth. #CTH25
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In the next panel, “Innovation Insights: Transforming Care through Hospital at Home Programs,” leaders from innovative Massachusetts hospital at home programs will discuss the promise of new models of care delivery in the Commonwealth. #CTH25