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  • Debra Lubar

    Debra Lubar

    December 2025

    Debra Lubar, PhD, is president of the Milbank Memorial Fund, a more than 120-year-old operating foundation that aims to improve population health and… More

  • The Future of North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots and What it Means for Other Medicaid Programs Considering Social Needs Programs

    State Health Policy Leadership

    The Future of North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots and What it Means for Other Medicaid Programs Considering Social Needs Programs

    December 2025 Joanne Kenen, 

    North Carolina’s much-heralded Medicaid experiment, which addressed social drivers of health like food, housing, and transportation more broadly and systematically than in other states, is on the brink. More

  • Population Health Social drivers of health

    Medicaid’s Essential Investments to Address Health-Related Social Needs

    November 2025 Harold A. Pollack, 

    nsider the story of John Miller, a fictionalized Chicagoan, who lives with a serious mental illness and co-occurring addiction disorders. He recently left a psychiatric inpatient facility. Estranged from his family, Mr. Miller was on the verge of becoming street homeless. More

  • Medicaid Reimbursement for Community Health Worker Services: Model State Plan Amendment & Other Guidance, November 2025 Update

    Toolkit State Health Policy Leadership

    Medicaid Reimbursement for Community Health Worker Services: Model State Plan Amendment & Other Guidance, November 2025 Update

    November 2025 Annie Cloke,  Margarita Hart,  Janée Tyus,  Dawn Alley,  Shreya Kangovi, 

    Community health workers, promotores, and community health representatives have historically relied on a patchwork of grants for funding, but more than half of state Medicaid programs have now implemented some form of CHW/P/CHR coverage and payment policy. This toolkit provides model language for state Medicaid leaders and CHW/P/CHR advocates to use as they develop State Plan Amendments and accompanying guidance documents to establish coverage and payment for CHW/P/CHR services. More

  • Primary Care Needs a Triple Double: A Call to Action

    Primary Care Transformation

    Primary Care Needs a Triple Double: A Call to Action

    November 2025 Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, 

    Health care should not just be about treating illness. It should be about preventing it, building long-term healing relationships, and improving overall health outcomes. So, when we talk about how to extend life expectancy and improve health at a sustainable cost, the answer is simple: double down on primary care. More

  • The Triple Double: Doubling Down on Primary Care by State

    Explainer Health of US Primary Care Scorecard Primary Care Transformation

    The Triple Double: Doubling Down on Primary Care by State

    November 2025

    Copublished with the Robert Graham Center and the Dr. John W. Hatch Center for Science The issue The 2025 US Primary Care… More

  • Health Care Costs Health Insurance US Health Care Reform

    Where Next for Health Policy?

    November 2025 Sherry Glied,  Lawrence D. Brown, 

    Despite all the criticism, the ACA has had notable success in achieving its objectives. More

  • Health Equity Population Health Social drivers of health Value-Based Payment

    Now What? Neighborhood Nursing’s Answer to the US Health Care Paradox of Spending More but Getting Less

    November 2025 ANDRE NOGUEIRA,  MARGARET M. FITZPATRICK,  ASHLEY GRESH,  KENNEDY MCDANIEL,  TIFFANY J. RISER,  TERRANCE LINDSAY,  RANDI WOODS,  ADEDOYIN EISAPE,  LISA STAMBOLIS,  ALICIA COOKE,  BRUCE LEFF,  ELIANA PERRIN,  REGINA HAMMOND,  Sarah L. Szanton, 

    Despite spending more per capita on healthcare than any other nation, the United States experiences declining life expectancy and increasing chronic disease burden—a paradox reflecting fundamental limitations in the current treatment-centered, facility-based care system. This paper introduces Neighborhood Nursing, an innovative universal care infrastructure designed to shift the US healthcare toward proactive, prevention-centered care organized geographically in neighborhoods. More

  • Population Health Public Health

    Public Concern about Threats to Public Health and Science Remains Modest

    November 2025 Rebekah H. Nagler,  Erika Franklin Fowler,  Emily K. Vraga,  Alexander J. Rothman,  Sarah E. Gollust, 

    US adults’ awareness of actions threatening public health and science declined between March and September 2025, according to a new survey. More

  • Best Practices in Health Care Claims Data Analysis to Inform State Action and Control Costs

    Report Health Care Affordability

    Best Practices in Health Care Claims Data Analysis to Inform State Action and Control Costs

    November 2025 Jessica Mar,  Caitlin Otter,  Michael Bailit, 

    Over the last decade, high and rising health care costs have squeezed patients’ wallets, strained local economies, and consumed a growing share of state budgets. In response, states have increasingly recognized the urgency of addressing unsustainable health care cost growth through innovative cost containment strategies More