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Massachusetts Provider Organizations with Higher Primary Care Investment Offer Better Value, New Research Finds

Gabrielle Shaver
August 13, 2024
Analytics and Reporting, Data Quality, What's New
There is a considerable body of research demonstrating the long-term benefits of primary care. However, for decades, the United States has underinvested in primary care, spending only 5 to 7 cents of every health care dollar on it versus 13 cents in other high-income countries.[i] To help address these concerns, more than a third of states have...Read more

A Beginner’s Guide to Rhode Island’s Healthcare Workforce Dashboard

Rik Ganguly, MPH
July 29, 2024
Analytics and Reporting, Data Quality
Changes in the healthcare workforce, macroeconomic factors, evolving trends in healthcare, and the impacts and pressures from the COVID-19 pandemic have prompted questions on whether an adequate and thriving workforce is available to address the health needs of Rhode Islanders. To investigate, the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) Healthcare Workforce...Read more

FHC President Discusses Hospital Non-Compliance in Health Transparency Legislation

John Freedman, MD/MBA
April 23, 2021
Analytics and Reporting, Data Quality
This piece on hospital price transparency non-compliance originally appeared on healthcare innovation, authored by Rajiv Leventhal. Having hospitals and insurers disclose their prices for items and services they provide has been a key federal healthcare initiative of late, but already, reports of non-compliance have dominated much of the conversation. As of Jan. 1, 2021, new regulations...Read more

New CPT Codes for COVID-19 Care Will Support APCD Analysis

Emma Rourke
September 24, 2020
Analytics and Reporting, Data Quality
In early September, the American Medical Association (AMA) published two additional Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes specifically addressing medical services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing the total number of new COVID-related CPT codes to 8. The first new code, 99072, was added in for health care practitioners across the country hoping to curtail...Read more

Thursday Thoughts: with Brian Robertson, PhD

Freedman HealthCare Staff
September 10, 2020
Data Quality
For this installment of our Thursday Thoughts series, we talk about how the survey world has been affected by COVID-19 with Dr. Brian Robertson of Market Decisions Research. Brian, who is the Vice President of Research, provides technical leadership for all Market Decisions Research projects, including research design, survey structure, sampling methodologies, data collection methods,...Read more
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