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A study by a leading health care economist concludes that if health care costs in Massachusetts grow more slowly than projected, workers could pocket as much as an extra $9,200 in take-home pay between 2011 and 2019. Over the same period, Massachusetts employers could save up to $34.5 billion in premium payments and preserve an additional $4.1 billion to invest in jobs and profits — all of which would otherwise be lost to rising health care costs.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation has appointed Celeste Reid Lee to the position of Senior Director of Grantmaking. She will oversee all of the Foundation’s grants programs, including a new category of funding that supports innovative approaches to making health care more affordable. In 2011, the Foundation awarded grants totaling nearly $3.3 million to 72 community organizations across Massachusetts.

Five years after the enactment of Massachusetts health reform, gains in residents’ access to needed health care have been sustained and first-time reductions in emergency room visits suggest improvements in the effectiveness of health care delivery in the state. These are among the findings from the latest Massachusetts Health Reform Survey, which has tracked the impact of reform since fall 2006. The survey, commissioned by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, is the basis for Health Reform in Massachusetts as of Fall 2010, a report written by researchers from the Urban Institute and the University of Minnesota. Also released today as a Web First was a related article published by the journal Health Affairs, which will also appear in the journal’s February issue.

December 20, 2011 – The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation today announced that eleven medical journalists from across the nation have been selected for the 2012 class of the Health Coverage Fellowship.