- Enrollment and Disenrollment in MassHealth and Commonwealth Care
Monday, April 26, 2010
This report, written in conjunction with senior staff at the Center for Health Law and Economics, examines the phenomenon of enrollees cycling on and off state health insurance programs, specifically MassHealth and Commonwealth Care.
- Massachusetts Medicaid Fertile Ground for Health Care Payment Changes
Monday, November 16, 2009
MassHealth could play a crucial role in containing health care costs. This report outlines how global payments could be used in Massachusetts Medicaid. Global payments have been recommended by the Special Commission on Health System Payment and the Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council as a means of reigning in health care cost increases and improving care coordination.
- Medicaid Prescription Drug Quality and Cost Management: Options, Opportunities and Progress
Friday, November 13, 2009
On Nov. 13, 2009, MMPI partnered with the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum and Community Catalyst to sponsor a forum exploring efforts in Massachusetts to improve quality and control Medicaid prescription drug costs. Click here for the issue brief released at the forum, and here for materials from the November 13 forum.
- The MassHealth Waiver: 2009-2011 . . . And Beyond
Monday, February 02, 2009
This report analyzes components of the federal waiver granted to the state on December 22, 2008 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The waiver authorizes critical federal funding for several health coverage programs for low-income individuals and for the Commonwealth’s safety net health system for uninsured residents. It is the programmatic and financial underpinning of the Commonwealth’s landmark 2006 health care reform law.
- Long-Term Care in Massachusetts: Facts at a Glance
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Massachusetts has a lengthy history of supporting the long-term care needs of elders and people with disabilities across the lifespan. This fact sheet provides a snapshot of the current state of long-term care supports in the Commonwealth, including information about the populations who use long-term care supports, projected changes in the demand for and cost of these services, and trends in utilization and payer mix.
- Massachusetts Medicaid in Perspective: An Analysis of Spending Growth and Economic Growth, 1996-2007
Monday, September 01, 2008
This issue brief shows that, contrary to common perception, Medicaid cost growth in Massachusetts has exceeded growth in the economy only modestly since the mid-1990s.