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Information for Data Submitters: Adult Day Health Cost Reports

Report Resources

Submission Deadline

  • Complete Cost Reports and financials must be submitted no later than June 1, 2026.

Overview

CHIA is now collecting cost reports for fiscal year (FY) 2025 from Adult Day Health (ADH) providers. CHIA collects these reports pursuant to regulation 957 CMR 6.00. The reports are used by CHIA and other public entities for monitoring costs and for health care payment policy development.  

Please read the Cost Report Instructions and the CHIA Submissions User Guide found under “Report Resources” in the blue box on the right of this page PRIOR to beginning work on the cost report.

Reporting Requirements

ADH agencies are required to submit the following, due no later than June 1, 2026.

  • Completed FY 2025 ADH Cost Report Template

    • The ADH cost report is submitted to CHIA online through CHIA Submissions. If you are a new provider or new user and do not have log in credentials, you must register with CHIA as soon as possible. Please consult the Cost Report Instructions for detailed steps on registering with CHIA.

 

  • FY 2025 Financial Statements

 

Reminders About the ADH Cost Report:

  1. CHIA Submissions works best in Google Chrome.

  2. Data must be keyed in. Please do not insert formulas or references to other spreadsheets as this may prevent the data from calculating accurately.

  3. All numbers must be whole numbers without decimals, except for hours and FTEs reported in Schedule B, Program Information and Schedule D, Staffing Information.

  4. In Schedule D: Staffing Information, if you have no information to report for a given staff type, leave the cell blank.

  5. The ‘Certification by Provider’ section, in the blue cells in Tab 9, must be filled in to save successfully.

  6. All submissions must be saved using the “Save Submission File” button on Tab 9, Accuracy of Report.
    Submissions that are not saved by using this button cannot be read by CHIA’s system and will not successfully upload.

 

Questions

For questions related to the CHIA Submissions portal and registering your agency, please email DL-Data-Submitter-HelpDesk@chiamass.gov.

For all other questions, please email CostReports.Pricing@chiamass.gov with the following information in the subject line of your email:

  1. Reporting year
  2. Name of the cost report in question
  3. Name of your agency with MassHealth ID #

Subject Line example: Question on FY2025 ADH Cost Report – ABC agency, ID# 123456789A