State revises 2015 health spending higher on Harvard Pilgrim error
DATE: October 7, 2016
The revision came after Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, one of the state’s largest insurers, noticed errors in the figures it submitted to the information center. The insurer erroneously left out $117 million in spending, skewing the numbers for the entire state. After Harvard Pilgrim turned in new data this week, the information center ran the numbers again.
The updated figures show that the state made very little progress in controlling spending between 2014, when spending rose 4.2 percent, and 2015, when it rose 4.1 percent. Massachusetts spent almost $57.4 billion on health care last year, or $8,441 per person.