(May 2025)
MHQP is pleased to announce that Barbra Rabson, MHQP’s president and CEO, will be honored with the Primary Care Community Leadership Award by the Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) at its Barbara Starfield Awards Dinner on June 4, 2025, in Washington, DC.
This award honors an individual or organization that has demonstrated
(May 2025)
MHQP was pleased to make a major contribution to the Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) program’s 11th statewide conference on May 6, 2025. The theme of this year’s event was “Primary Care at a Crossroads,” one of MHQP’s key areas of focus.
Lucilia Prates-Ramos, SMP’s Statewide Director and the former Chair
(April 2025)
In January 2025, Governor Maura Healey signed Chapter 343 of the Acts of 2024, An Act Enhancing the Market Review Process. Section 80 of this Act established a new 25-member Task Force on primary care access, delivery, and payment in the Commonwealth. The Task Force held its
(February 2025)
MHQP is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 “MHQP Patient Experience Awards.” MHQP introduced this award program in 2018 as a way to recognize the primary care practices that perform highest on our annual Patient Experience Survey, the only statewide survey of patient experience in primary care in Massachusetts.
First conducted in 2005, MHQP’s statewide survey,
(January 2025)
2024 was an unsettling year, as Massachusetts health care experienced unprecedented access challenges, widespread clinician burnout, and other unanticipated disruptions. Through all the uncertainty and turmoil, MHQP continued to be a reliable source of data to help us all better understand patient experiences, an innovative force for transparency and
(July 2024)
In July, as the Massachusetts Legislature neared the end of its session, MHQP leaders helped push for draft legislation that would establish a Primary Care Task Force in Massachusetts. This Task Force would help lead the Commonwealth out of its current primary care crisis by studying primary care
Every two years, in partnership with the Center for Health Information Analysis (CHIA), MHQP collects clinical quality performance data from the state’s health plans for commercially insured patients in primary care practices across the Commonwealth.
(May 20, 2024)
MHQP is pleased to have made a significant contribution over the past few years to the growing awareness of the fragile state of primary care in Massachusetts. Last week, in collaboration with MHQP, the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) released an updated dashboard to measure the health of primary care
(May 2024)
The Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA), in collaboration with MHQP, today released the latest primary care dashboard to monitor the health of the primary care system in the Commonwealth.
A high-functioning primary care system can lead to better patient outcomes, lower costs, and more
(May 2024)
Barbra Rabson and Katherine Gergen Barnett have collaborated again, this time on a commentary in Perspectives in Primary Care, published by the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care. The opinion piece, entitled “Lessons from Steward and the Need for Primary Care Reform in Massachusetts,” traces the roots of