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Population Health State Health Policy
April 2024 Jennifer Karas Montez,
Ten ways to accelerate research on the role that the seismic shifts in states’ policy contexts may have played in the troubling trends and growing disparities in Americans’ health. More
Health of US Primary Care Scorecard Primary Care Transformation
April 2024 Christopher F. Koller,
In an April 15, 2024, Opinion in Healthcare Dive, Christopher Koller, president of the Milbank Memorial Fund; Kyu Rhee, president and CEO of the National Association of Community Health Centers; and R. Shawn Martin, executive vice president and CEO of the American Academy of Family Physicians, explain that chronic disinvestment and inadequate training have created a shortage of primary care workers. More
April 2024 Joanne Kenan,
Dannette Smith was not a late bloomer. With a trailblazing mom — not many Black women were assistant school superintendents in a… More
Report Sustainable Health Care Costs
April 2024 Vinayak Sinha, Emma Rourke, Mary Jo Condon, William Brandel,
This brief offers recommendations for a definition and standardized methodology supported by a detailed code set to measure how much payers spend on behavioral health clinical services, which includes claims and non-claims spending. More
April 2024 John Heintzman, Miguel Marino ,
Over the past 40 years, numerous national organizations have called for health data disaggregation — breaking down data into smaller, more precise… More
Sustainable Health Care Costs
April 2024 Michael Bailit,
A table showing state target values for 2024 and beyond, as available. More
Aging
April 2024 Dalton Conley,
In my last Opinion piece, I discussed the theory that many diseases typical of our advanced years are actually different manifestations of a single… More
April 2024 Rachel Block,
Slower systemwide health care spending growth could allow employers to put more dollars into wages or invest it elsewhere. More
Joanne Kenen has been the Journalist in Residence at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH) since late 2021, and this year she’s… More
Toolkit Sustainable Health Care Costs
April 2024
A new series of Peterson-Milbank analytics support resources offers insight into how to use publicly available data sources to examine the financial condition of hospitals, as well as identify opportunities to reduce health care spending growth while avoiding any unintended consequences that might result. More