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The MBTA shuttles over a million passengers a day around Greater…


Survey: Consumers Want Healthcare Price Information, But Few Realize It’s Available
Great strides have been made to increase healthcare price transparency through online cost estimator tools and a state law that requires providers to give out price information. Yet despite the eagerness of consumers to access prices and out-of-pocket costs, many are unaware that such information is available and don’t know how to access it, according to survey results published by Pioneer Institute.

Healthcare Price Transparency in Massachusetts: Results from a survey of Massachusetts consumers regarding healthcare price transparency
In June 2019, Pioneer Institute, with support from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans, contracted with noted pollster David Paleologos, head of DAPA Research at Suffolk University’s Research Bureau, to conduct a valid and reliable survey of Massachusetts consumers with employer sponsored health insurance. The goals of the survey were to determine consumers’ awareness, attitudes, views, usage, and knowledge of healthcare prices. This white paper presents analysis of the results.

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

Pioneer Experts Offer Contrasting Prescriptions For MA Healthcare
BOSTON - New policy briefs from Josh Archambault and Barbara Anthony, two senior fellows in healthcare at Pioneer Institute, offer differing prescriptions for how Massachusetts should navigate uncertainty in the healthcare market, as Congress debates the fate of the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Survey Finds Prescription Drug Prices Easy To Access, But Not Always Accurate
Wide variation found in price of generics, less for brand-name…

Op-ed: Health fee pinches taxpayers
Read this op-ed in the Boston Herald (September 4, 2016).
Sometimes…

Health Care Payment Reform’s New Bureaucracies
In Part 3 of Pioneer Institute’s series on Massachusetts’…


Comparing the Clinical Quality and Cost of Secondary Care in Academic Health Centers and in Community Hospitals
This study analyzes data from hospitals in six states, including…

An Economic History of Health Care in Massachusetts 1990-2000
Author: Jerome H. Grossman, M.D.
This report examines the…