Priority areas for future policy action include addressing health care affordability, health inequities, health care workforce challenges, and the continuing COVID-19 pandemic
HPC requires MGB to develop public performance improvement plan to reduce cost growth; Proposed MGB expansions would further increase commercial health care spending by at least $46 million to $90 million per year
Addressing affordability challenges for residents, health inequities, and the future of the health care workforce identified as priority areas for future policy action
Commissioners also set the Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark at 3.1% for 2022; awarded $1.5 million in funding to five hospitals focused on supporting substance exposed newborns and their caregivers
While health care cost growth remains below national levels, residents with high deductible plans have trouble paying medical bills, face increased medical debt, and continue to experience unmet health care needs