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Many of CHIA's recent reports include interactive dashboards to help better visualize data and perform customizable analyses.
CHIA is continuing to expand the use of data visualizations to help policymakers, insurers, health care providers, employers, and researchers more easily explore CHIA’s comprehensive data resources.
A selection of some of our recent interactive data and analyses are outlined and linked below.
These visualizations help promote transparency and a better understanding of the Massachusetts health care system
Health care prices for similar health care services vary considerably both in Massachusetts and across the United States. CHIA reports on this variation using a methodology that accounts for price differences that might be justified by:
o The patient's illness or complexity of care needed
o The type of commercial health insurance plan
o The array of medical services supported at the institution
This publication includes customizable interactive graphics along with an executive summary and databook. Read more....
Hospitals and the health systems to which they belong play an important role in the Massachusetts health care system and are critical to achieving the Commonwealth’s goals of controlling costs while improving the quality of care delivered. CHIA monitors and provides meaningful analysis on Massachusetts hospitals and hospital health systems through a variety of metrics and studies. Read more....
Behavioral health encompasses services and treatment for both mental health (MH) and substance use disorders (SUD), an array of vital services that can meaningfully shape patient outcomes. Measuring and tracking indicators of behavioral health care provides an essential fact base that enables data-driven policymaking and delivery system reforms.
CHIA, in collaboration with Massachusetts Health Quality Partners has published the latest primary care dashboard to monitor the health of the primary care system in the Commonwealth. A high-functioning primary care system can lead to better patient outcomes, lower costs, and more equitable care. Access to these services improves overall population health and can reduce avoidable emergency department visits. Read more...
While Massachusetts reports near-universal health care coverage statewide, gaps in health care persist among residents of different races, ethnicities, geographic regions, and other characteristics. Additionally, rising health care costs impact access, affordability, and utilization of health care services, that can lead to downstream impacts on health outcomes.
This dashboard showcases health care inequities with a focus on findings related to race, ethnicity, and geography. Read More....
Nursing facilities serve an important role in the continuum of health care services in Massachusetts, providing nearly 12 million patient days of service in 2023.
To better understand this component of the Massachusetts health care system, CHIA's new dashboard, released in January 2025, examines the Commonwealth's nursing facilities at an industry level as well as at an individual facility level on measures of financial performance, quality of care, and utilization. Read more.....
Hospitals and the health systems to which they belong play an important role in the Massachusetts health care system and are critical to achieving the Commonwealth’s goals of controlling costs while improving the quality of care delivered. In an effort to provide a more comprehensive look at the acute hospital industry, CHIA has merged hospital and hospital health system data into one interactive dashboard below. This dashboard includes both financial and utilization data. Read more....
Enrollment Trends monitors health insurance coverage in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where coverage is defined by unique Massachusetts residents with primary, medical membership in the 14 largest commercial payers, MassHealth (Medicaid), or Medicare. Read more...
CHIA has developed dashboards providing analyses and trends sourced from the Massachusetts Acute Care Hospital Inpatient Discharge (Case Mix) Database. These dashboards give insights into hospital inpatient emergency department and outpatient observation utilization patterns. Read more....
The Massachusetts Employer Survey (MES) is an ongoing health insurance survey that tracks and monitors employer health insurance offerings, employee take-up rates, cost-sharing, plan characteristics, and employer decision-making. The MES interactive data analysis tool provides valuable insights into the employer health insurance market, including how the landscape of workplace health benefits has shifted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and persistent cost pressures. Read more.....
This data visualization provides in-depth readmission statistics for each Massachusetts hospital broken out by several factors and presented in the context of the statewide figures. Read more....
The Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey (MHIS) provides information on health care coverage, access and affordability trends in Massachusetts. The MHIS is a tool used by legislators, policymakers, employers, insurers and other stakeholders to monitor the experiences of Massachusetts residents in receiving timely and affordable health care. Read more....
CHIA has released its latest analysis on commercial prescription drug use and spending in an effort to shine a light on the drivers of pharmacy expenditures, including high volume and high-cost drugs. The latest dashboard and detailed dataset, allows users to see drivers of prescription drug spending as well as the associated conditions these drugs treat. Read more....
