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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As COVID-19 Emergencies Ease, Some Progress on Telehealth Rules

A new report from Reason Foundation, Cicero Institute and Pioneer Institute rates every state’s telehealth policy for patient access and ease of providing virtual care. The report highlights telehealth policy best practices for states.

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COVID-19 IMPACT AND RESPONSE

As COVID-19 Emergencies Ease, Some Progress on Telehealth Rules

A new report from Reason Foundation, Cicero Institute and Pioneer Institute rates every state’s telehealth policy for patient access and ease of providing virtual care. The report highlights telehealth policy best practices for states.

EXPANDING HEALTHCARE ACCESS

Study: Massachusetts Should Retain Additional Healthcare System Flexibility Granted During Pandemic

Massachusetts’ emergency declaration for COVID-19 ends on June 15, and with it some enhanced flexibility that has been allowed in the healthcare system.  Some of the added flexibility highlighted barriers that make the system more expensive, harder to access and less patient-centered, and the Commonwealth should consider permanently removing these barriers, according to a new study published by Pioneer Institute.

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Opinion: Drug patents aren’t a ‘necessary evil.’ They save lives.

May 15, 2023/by William Smith

A Federal Drug Discount Program for the Wealthy

March 23, 2023/by William Smith

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
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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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