A new Dartmouth-led study, published this week in the June issue of Health Affairs, offers new details about how one key approach–home visits–is helping many ACOs improve care management and identify patient needs while aiming to reduce hospital use.
The Milbank Memorial Fund is pleased to announce that Alan B. Cohen, ScD, will serve as the editor of The Milbank Quarterly , effective August 1, 2018.
Christopher F. Koller, President, Milbank Memorial Fund writes " The far greater impact of advocates like my sister and the articulate students now speaking up is to create space for previously impossible legislative and campaign discussions."
Announcing the Milbank Memorial Fund and AcademyHealth State and Local Innovation Prize The Milbank Memorial Fund has teamed up with AcademyHealth to establish a new annual award that recognizes state and local efforts to advance...
The report analyzes three prominent state health scorecards to identify states that had significant, sustained improvements—verified in several of the scorecards—in one or more key population health outcome measures.
Many state health policy leaders are interested in telehealth—the use of technology to deliver health care to patients in a setting different from that of the provider—as a way of expanding patient access to care, especially in rural areas. State...
Authored by the Robert Graham Center and summarizing studies published between November 2015 and February 2017, the report found that the concept of PCMH has evolved and new models of high-performing primary care are emerging.
An independent consultant who worked for the Fund and other organizations focusing on federal and state health policy issues, she has served in numerous executive roles in the public and private sectors, most recently spearheading development of New...
A last-minute attempt by conservative Republicans to dump standards for health benefits in plans sold to individuals would probably lower the average consumer’s upfront insurance costs, such as premiums and deductibles, said experts on both sides of...
The common goal of health policy leaders at the level of state government in the United States is promoting the health and well-being of all populations to the greatest extent possible within fixed resource constraints.
Yale University researchers conducted a study with the Milbank Memorial Fund to learn what the challenges were in implementing a more social services-oriented approach within health departments and across communities.
Since 2010, when the Milbank Memorial Fund published its first behavioral health integration (BHI) report, the field has advanced conceptually, and there has been a proliferation of research.
A new report written by researchers at the Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, draws on evidence from the literature and four case studies to outline...
Discrimination experienced by transgender and gender-nonconforming people in public settings like bathrooms and health care facilities results in adverse health outcomes.