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Sustainable Health Care Costs
April 2024 Matthew Reynolds, Alyssa Vangeli,
ver the last few years, health care cost growth target states had to make difficult decisions about whether and how the dramatic increase in inflation should impact existing cost growth target values and/or the process and methodology for setting new cost growth target values. More
Alyssa Vangeli, JD, MPH, is a senior consultant at Bailit Health, where she supports states with health policy analysis and research, strategic… More
Matthew Reynolds, MPH, is a consultant at Bailit Health, whose work includes supporting states on initiatives related to cost growth targets,… More
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