A few months ago, the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI) issued a report on non-urgent use of Emergency Departments. It didn’t get that much public attention, which is too bad. It offered some interesting insights.

First of all, inappropriate — or non-urgent — use of the Emergency Room was not limited to uninsured populations. It showed up […]

There was a story in the Boston Business Journal last week about the delays incurred by the MA Health Care Quality and Cost Council in trying to put up a web site that would show — for the first time — what the private sector actually pays providers for health care services in Massachusetts.

The story says, and […]

For the past few years, Harvard Pilgrim has published an annual report that focuses on some issue — or set of issues — in health care. Most of the time, the report is a little late — usually because I’ve been slow to get around to writing about something that gets past the plan’s PR […]