This brief from Freedman HealthCare employs Massachusetts’ combination of recommended policy and rich data sources to analyze whether provider organizations with higher primary care investment perform better on measures of quality and spending. This study builds on the aforementioned California work and aims to show whether a similar analysis replicated in state with a different approach to primary care financing and delivery would produce similar results. It also models how these findings could inform legislative and regulatory efforts to increase primary care investment using Massachusetts’ PC4You legislation as an example. Highlights of the findings are provided below. The study used Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA)’s data on commercial primary care spending, total medical expense, and care quality.
