MA Health Policy Commission Releases Two Reports Examining Key Drivers of Rising Health Care Spending

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) has released its 2015 Cost Trends Report (report PDF ) and a Special Report examining unwarranted variation in prices among health care providers (report PDF ). The Report examines health care spending in Massachusetts, the state’s performance against the cost growth benchmark, and makes strong policy recommendations to the Legislature, other state agencies, the health policy community, and the HPC itself.