Affordable, Innovative Care

PioneerHealth explores market-based reforms to rein in the cost and improve the quality of care in Massachusetts. Our healthcare research is focused on state and federal health care reform, Medicaid, and cost containment.

LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY TRACKER

With so many deaths occurring at long-term care facilities, in Massachusetts and other states, Pioneer has added a new COVID-19 tracker, with data from the state’s weekly Public Health Report. This data includes any nursing home, rehabilitation center or other long-term care facility with 2+ known COVID-19 cases and facility-reported deaths. This tracker includes the number of licensed beds, ranges of case numbers, deaths, and deaths per bed for 320 facilities.  Pioneer will update the tracker weekly.

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PRICE TRANSPARENCY

Survey Finds Spotty Compliance Among Hospitals with Federal Price Transparency Law

A 2019 federal law requires hospitals to make prices for 300 shoppable services available online in a “consumer-friendly format,” but a Pioneer Institute survey of 19 hospitals finds that information on discounted cash prices—the price most likely to be charged to consumers paying out of pocket—was unavailable at seven of those hospitals.

HEALTHCARE REFORM
LIFE SCIENCES
COVID-19 IMPACT AND RESPONSE

Pandemic Dead Reckoning: Unseen Casualties of Public Health Interventions

Hubwonk host Host Joe Selvaggi talks with Pioneer Institute’s Senior Fellow Dr. Bill Smith about new evidence that during the past two years of the pandemic, there were as many unseen excess deaths from non-Covid-related diseases as seen from Covid. They discuss the need for public health leaders to pivot their messaging to address this hidden mortality.

EXPANDING HEALTHCARE ACCESS

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Harvard research points to ending drug cost help

November 7, 2022/by William Smith

A Modest Proposal to Raise Federal Revenue

September 27, 2021/by William Smith

Why are health care costs rising every year in Massachusetts?

September 1, 2021/by Barbara Anthony

A Rush to Judgment on Alzheimer’s Drug

May 17, 2021/by William Smith

ICER Proves Its Lack of Business Acumen, Again

February 3, 2021/by William Smith

Combatting COVID-19: Life in the MGH Emergency Room

June 16, 2020/by Editorial Staff

In The Era Of COVID-19, Mass. Needs To Get Long-Term Care Right

May 20, 2020/by Barbara Anthony

Baker needs to expand telehealth further

March 25, 2020/by Joshua Archambault
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Hewitt Healthcare Lecture

In 2006, Pioneer Institute launched an effort to endow a healthcare research and lecture program in memory of its former chairman, “Colby” Hewitt. To donate to the Hewitt Endowment, click here.

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U-Turn: America’s Return to State Healthcare Solutions

With Congress and the Trump Administration poised to repeal the Affordable Care Act, many observers are asking what the replacement plan looks like.  A new book, U-Turn: America’s Return to State Healthcare Solutions, proposes that the states take the lead in healthcare reform, as Massachusetts did in 2006, and that Washington facilitate the transition, rather than try to dictate every move.

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