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The Latest from The Milbank Memorial Fund

  1. Charting a New History: A Moderate Republican Calls for Change

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  2. Confronting the Bully: New North Carolina Medicaid Program Gets Hospitals to Forgive and Prevent Medical Debt 

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  3. Ann Gillespie: Succeeding in Both Branches of Government

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  4. Proposed Medicare Fee Schedule Brings Important New Tools to Primary Care: Has CMS Nailed It? 

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  5. Leveraging a Standardized State Methodology that Measures Behavioral Health Clinical Spending to Improve Care

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  6. Milbank Memorial Fund Welcomes its 2024-25 Leadership Program Cohorts

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Latest Milbank Quarterly Issue Released:  June 2024

  1. Early View Perspective

    Reforming Physician Licensure in the United States to Improve Access to Telehealth: State, Regional, and Federal Initiatives

    By:  James René Jolin Barak Richman Ateev Mehrotra Carmel Shachar

    The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a dramatic increase in the use of telehealth in the United States,1 aided in no small part by a flurry of temporary… More

  2. Early View Perspective

    Targeting Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in Health Care to Reduce Bias and Improve Population Health

    By:  Thelma C. Hurd Fay Cobb Payton Darryl B. Hood

    Artificial intelligence is being embraced as the solution to mitigate differences in health and health outcomes. More

  3. Early View Perspective

    Policy Recommendations for Coordinated and Sustainable Growth of the Behavioral Health Workforce

    By:  Briana S. Last Erika L. Crable

    Demand for behavioral health services in the United States far outpaced supply before the coronavirus pandemic, but the past several years have… More

  4. Early View Original Scholarship

    State-Level Education Quality and Trajectories of Cognitive Function by Race and Educational Attainment

    By:  Katrina M. Walsemann Heide Jackson Emily Abbruzzi Jennifer A. Ailshire

    Federal and state investment in public schools may provide students with opportunities to develop important cognitive resources during schooling that translate into better cognitive function in later life, especially among marginalized populations. More

  5. Early View Original Scholarship

    A Hexagonal Aim as a Driver of Change for Health Care and Health Insurance Systems

    By:  Pierre-Henri Bréchat Angela Fagerlin Anthony Ariotti Alexis Pearl Lee Smitha Warrier Nancy Gregovich Pascal Briot Rajendu Srivastava

    The Quadruple Aim includes improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, reducing per capita costs of care, and improving the work life of the care providers. We propose expanding a recently defined Fifth Aim of health equity to include health democracy, ensuring that that the health and health care wants, needs, and responsibilities of populations are being met, and also propose adding a Sixth Aim of preserving and improving the health of the environment to create the best health possible. More

  6. Early View Original Scholarship

    The Impact of Medicaid Institutions for Mental Disease Exclusion Waivers on the Availability of Substance Abuse Treatment Services and the Varying Effect by Ownership Type

    By:  Yimin Ge John A. Romley Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

    Context: Access to integrated care for those with co-occurring mental health (MH) and substance use disorders (SUDs) has been limited because of an… More

The Milbank Quarterly Opinion

The Public Health Community Must Stand Up for Greater Resources Devoted to Criminal Justice Research

Working in the fields of substance use and harm reduction, we encounter the suffering and trauma experienced by study participants, community…  More

Civil Rights, Health Care, and the Struggle for the Soul of Medicine

New federal court decisions have delayed the implementation of new rules protecting health care for transgender people issued under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.  More

Health Equity Research in Population Health: Building the Necessary Workforce

Civil rights and health equity advocates in the allied fields of population health have worked for decades to get more funding and attention for…  More
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State Networks and Leadership Programs

  • Milbank State Leadership Network

    The Milbank State Leadership Network is a bipartisan group of state health policy leaders from both the executive and legislative branches.

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  • Emerging Leaders Program

    The Emerging Leaders Program seeks to develop practical, hands-on leadership skills in future senior executive and legislative officials.

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  • Milbank Fellows Program

    The Milbank Fellows Program is a leadership program for executive branch and senior legislative state government leaders committed to improving population health.

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