Massachusetts Primary Care Dashboard

Overview

In collaboration with Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, CHIA publishes the primary care dashboard to monitor the health of the primary care system in the Commonwealth.

A high-functioning primary care system can lead to more equitable care, lower costs, and better patient outcomes. Access to these services improves overall population health and can reduce avoidable emergency department visits.

The latest version of the primary care dashboard updates previously published metrics with the latest data available. New measures presented in the access and care domains include resident visits to Federally Qualified Health Centers and chronic disease control monitoring.

Full Description

Since the dashboard’s launch in 2023, interest in primary care in Massachusetts has continued to grow, prompting broader attention and policy focus.

CHIA and MHQP developed this dashboard to inform targeted policy solutions and investments as well as monitor the impact of such reforms.

In addition, the dashboard provides a fact base to support the work of the Commonwealth’s Primary Care Access, Delivery, and Payment Task Force. The dashboard measures the health of primary care across five domains:

• Finance – metrics focused on spending for primary care services 
  
  
• Performance – metrics focused on access and care  
  
  
• Capacity – metrics focused on the primary care workforce and pipeline 
  
  
• Equity – metrics focused on assessing inequities in the primary care system

The interactive workbook enables users to stratify certain measures by geography, payer type, and sociodemographic dimensions. The accompanying databook includes multi-year trends where available. 

Massachusetts Primary Care Interactive Workbook

(June 2025)

Updated June 5, 2025

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