Heath Care Costs

Read the latest about effort to manage health care costs, and MMS advocacy to ensure that cost-control efforts protect patients' access to care and promote high-quality, high performance health care.

Overview and Background

• Health Care Premium Expenditures in Massachusetts: Where Does Your Health Care Dollar Go? (.pdf, 33 pages)
  MMS report identifies the factors driving rising health care costs and health insurance premiums in Massachusetts, and where those premium dollars are spent.
• Physician Payment Models: Review and Update (.pdf, 40 pages)
  MMS study examining the impact of alternatives to current payment systems.
• Health Plan Financial Data Reporting: A Call for Transparency
  MMS report calling for the development of a standard reporting process for health plan financial data in Massachusetts.

MMS Stance

• Cost efficiency is a critical health care issue, not only for economic reasons, but because patients forego necessary care when it is not affordable.
• Physicians are committed to participating in efforts to identify areas where health care can be made more efficient.
• Quick fox solutions must be avoided, because such efforts invariably have unintended consequences, and frequently cause more damage than the problem it is trying to solve.