Scarborough Mills, Kate

Official Record

• Year Started Current Position 2019
• Years in Current Position 8
• Years in State Service 13
• Job Description The Market Oversight and Transparency (MOAT) department, led by Kate Scarborough Mills, Esq., MPH, is responsible for advancing the HPC’s statutory charge to encourage a more value-based health care market. This includes (1) developing and implementing a first-in-the-nation Registration of Provider Organizations (RPO) program to provide transparency on the composition and function of provider organizations in the health care system, (2) tracking and evaluating the impact of significant health care provider changes on the competitive market and on the state’s ability to meet the health care cost growth benchmark through review of material change notices (MCNs) and cost and market impact reviews (CMIRs), (3) evaluating the performance of individual health care providers and payers which threaten the health care cost growth benchmark and overseeing Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) to improve the cost performance of such entities, and (4) collaborating with other HPC departments to catalyze improvements in the performance of the health care system.

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Education & Career

• Education
  • A.B., Psychology, Harvard University
  • J.D., Northeastern School of Law
  • M.P.H., Tufts Medical School
• Previous Employment
  • Director of Policy for Market Performance, Deputy Director for Cost and Market Impact Reviews Health Policy Commission
  • Associate Counsel, Health Care Fiscal Policy Analyst, Massachusetts Senate Committee on Ways and Means