
Doctor Heal Thyself: Insider’s Prescription For Healthcare Reform
Host Joe Selvaggi talks with surgeon and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Marty Makary about the healthcare reform themes in The Price We Pay, the 2020 Business Book of the Year. The discussion covers the value of price transparency, provider accountability, and performance information to drive better medical outcomes and improve doctor and patient satisfaction.

Pioneer Institute’s 2021 Government Transparency Resolutions: Sunshine Week Edition
As it does each year, Pioneer shares the resolutions it hopes state leaders will adopt to bring government actions into better focus and invigorate our democracy with heightened public engagement. As the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis noted, “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”

Hockey Sidelined Again
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After months on the sidelines, youth hockey players across the state eagerly laced up their skates in August. Under current youth and amateur sports guidelines, locker rooms operate at 50 percent capacity, only one spectator should attend per player, and players wear masks on the bench. Unlike in MIAA high school sports, players do not wear facemasks while they play, except during faceoffs.

Getting Nursing Home Care Right
Pioneer Institute has long recognized that seniors deserve the best of care and that innovative policy solutions are necessary to ensure that this population enjoys a high quality of life in their later years. In the 1990s, early 2000s and most recently in 2017, the Institute dedicated Better Government Competition topics to policy issues related to aging in America. Our goal each time was to find solutions and to take advantage of new innovations that would improve the quality of life and care for the elderly.

HHS COVID Funding Tracker
As of July, the Feds have distributed $86.7 billion to medical providers, of which $2.3 billion came to Massachusetts. Pioneer’s new HHS COVID-19 Funding app shows who and how much, from the $1 sent to American Current Care of Massachusetts, to the $418,034,675 sent to the MA Department of Public Health. We also break down the distribution by city or town.

COVID-19 Roundup from Pioneer: Why the divergent fatality rates?, Time for Telehealth, Missing the Greatest Generation, Senator profiting from COVID-19 & more!
Pioneer staff share their top picks for COVID-19 stories highlighting…

COVID-19 Roundup from Pioneer: Tracking COVID-19 in MA, unemployment tsunami, cancel MCAS?, cell phone hygiene, salute to James Taylor, state tax filing & more!
Pioneer staff share their top picks for COVID-19 stories highlighting useful resources, best practices, and questions we should be asking our public and private sector leaders.

COVID-19 Roundup from Pioneer: COVID-19 treatments on the way?, a COVID-19 Manhattan Project, best practices at Best Buy, “Expert Mercy,” a shout-out to a local high school, & more!
Pioneer Institute's Top Picks for COVID-19 news, resources, best practices & more!

2019 Hewitt Health Care Lecture: U.S. HHS Secretary Alex Azar’s Remarks on Healthcare Price Transparency, Opioid Crisis, HIV Epidemic & More
This past Monday, Pioneer held the 13th annual Hewitt Healthcare…

The Opioid Crisis’ Wealth Window: There’s a Network of Overdoses on the East Coast
Billerica, Massachusetts is a quaint town of 40,000 people in…

A Wealth of Data: A Map of the Massachusetts Opioid Epidemic
In 2016, the rate of opioid overdose deaths in Massachusetts…

Can State Pensioners Pay for Future Medically Necessary Long-term Care?
At some point many people find themselves needing help to care…

Bill H.2890: Funding More Problems than Solutions
Studies show that 90 percent of the elderly want to live out…

Moving the Needle on Healthcare Cost Containment & Reform
Today, Pioneer Institute submitted recommendations to the Commonwealth…

Creating Space for Healthcare Innovators in the Marketplace
Pioneer Institute's initiatives in healthcare focus on three…

Time for Boston to open up to limited service clinics
As a little girl I have a dim memory of my mother taking me to…

2017 Hewitt Healthcare Lecture: “Evolving Healthcare Delivery Models”
Paul F. Levy, former President & CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess…

Improving Access To Health Systems Available To Older Patients
Guest post by Alex Carlin
As more Americans age in place,…

Governor’s Plan to Cap Healthcare Provider Prices Misses the Mark
The Governor filed a number of healthcare market reform proposals…

Meeting the Housing Needs of an Aging Population
Guest post by Mariella Rutigliano
Many Americans struggle…

Statement on Governor Baker’s Proposed Healthcare Business Assessment
In January, the Baker Administration introduced a number of healthcare…

State Leadership Needed on Healthcare Price Transparency
Governor Baker’s recent healthcare proposals include provisions…

Achieving a Sustainable and Transparent Healthcare System
As the Legislative Special Commission on Provider Price Variation…

Family Caregiving & the Promise of Technology
Guest post by Ben Margolin
When older Americans require around-the-clock…

Insurer Using Market Clout to Lower Healthcare Costs for Consumers
There are rumblings among some in the hospital community voicing…

Telemedicine: The Future of Healthcare
Telemedicine sounds a bit like science-fiction, but the practice…

2016 Hewitt Healthcare Lecture: “Facing Down the Opioid Crisis”
On April 20, 2016, Pioneer welcomed medical professionals, researchers,…

Why Mental Health, Why Now?
When the topic of “Improving Mental Health” was chosen, the importance resonated immediately. It may be more relevant than at any other point in our nation’s history. Every area of core government function is affected by the status of mental health. Our failure to find answers and reduce inefficiencies costs the Commonwealth innocent lives and millions of dollars each year.

How To Tell If The Price Is Right: Fostering Transparency in Healthcare Prices for Massachusetts Consumers
Notwithstanding a Massachusetts law requiring the clear, prompt…

2015 Hewitt Health Care Lecture : Under the Microscope: Advancing Health Care Value Through Greater Transparency
Dr. Robert S. Kaplan is the world’s leading authority on strategic…