CHIA Releases Latest Annual Report on the Performance of the Massachusetts Health Care System

DATE: March 31, 2025

The Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) today released its latest Annual Report on the Performance of the Massachusetts Health Care System. In this report, CHIA examines trends in costs, coverage, and quality indicators to inform policymaking.Massachusetts total health care expenditures (THCE) totaled $78.1 billion in 2023, an 8.6 percent increase per capita from 2022 that was more than double the 3.6 percent health care cost growth benchmark.

The Annual Report presents results on health care spending and cost trends, access and affordability, hospital utilization and financial performance, key quality metrics and behavioral health trends. This report primarily focuses on data through 2023; select hospital utilization and financial measures are included through June 2024, where possible.

Key findings from this report will be presented at the Health Policy Commission’s Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark Hearing. The annual public hearing, scheduled for 12 p.m. Thursday, March 13, 2025, solicits testimony, data, and feedback from market participants, stakeholders, and other interested parties to inform the 2026 health care cost growth benchmark. Members of the state Legislature’s Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, led by Senate Chair Cindy Friedman and House Chair John Lawn Jr., will co-host the hearing alongside the HPC Board of Commissioners.

The hearing will be livestreamed on both the HPC website and the Massachusetts Legislature’s webpage, and the recording will be posted to the HPC’s YouTube channel following the hearing.

CHIA’s Annual Report on the Performance of the Massachusetts Health Care System also includes a databook, datasets, and technical appendices.

Download the full report and supporting materials at https://www.chiamass.gov/annual-report.