Primary and Behavioral
Health Care Expenditures
Data Reporting Resources
Submission Deadline
October 15, 2025
In 2022, Massachusetts enacted Chapter 177: An Act Addressing Barriers to Care for Mental Health, charging CHIA with monitoring “costs, cost trends, price, quality, utilization, and patient outcomes related to behavioral health service subcategories.” Behavioral health service subcategories include, but are not limited to: mental health, substance use disorder, outpatient, inpatient, services for children, services for adults, and provider types as defined in M.G.L. c. 12C, § 10 Section 21A. Chapter 177 requires CHIA to publish information that separately measures mental health and substance use disorders across specific settings and populations.
Consistent with CHIA’s mission to create and curate data assets that support evidence-based policy making and program oversight, the agency is collecting more detailed information about primary care and behavioral health spending in the Commonwealth. The data specifications support directives from the legislature, as well as and other future initiatives and policies related to primary care and behavioral health.
Payers must submit data to CHIA annually in accordance with regulation 957 CMR 2.00. This regulation governs the methodology and filing requirements for health care payers to calculate and report Primary Care and Behavioral Health Expenditures.
All Primary Care and Behavioral Health (PCBH) data are submitted by using a pre-formatted Excel template.
Reports are required to be submitted through https://chiasubmissions.chia.state.ma.us, CHIA’s web-based transaction service. Registration via a CHIA Data Reporter User Agreement is required to access and use any of CHIA's submission platforms.
Most data is submitted via one of CHIA’s Web-Based Submission Platforms. A CHIA Data Reporter User Agreement is required to access and use any of CHIA's submission platforms.
The CHIA Data Reporter User Agreement establishes the terms and conditions under which an organization and its authorized users may access CHIA's Web-Based Submission Platforms. The Agreement requires the following components: a) Main Agreement (Pages 1–4): Completed and signed once per Data Reporter entity b) Exhibit A – User Authorization Form: Completed and signed separately for each individual user who will access CHIA's platforms, including the Agreement Administrator.
On Wednesday, February 12, 2020, CHIA held a listening session to solicit public comments and feedback on proposed updates to CHIA’s data specifications to better measure primary care and behavioral health spending in the Commonwealth.
The listening session focused on the following topics related to the draft data specifications:
CHIA's presentation from the listening session is available here. A compilation of comments and feedback from the listening session can be found here.
For questions specifically related to payer data reporting, please email Erin.Bonney@chiamass.gov.
