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The Milbank Memorial Fund is an endowed operating foundation that aims to improve population health and health equity by connecting leaders and decision makers by collaborating with leaders and decision makers and connecting them with experience and sound evidence. It does this work by:
Morgan F. McDonald, MD, has been named the Milbank Memorial Fund’s National Director of Population Health and Health Equity Leadership. More
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In conversation with Milbank Memorial Fund former program officer Kate McEvoy, Della Au Belatti, Hawaii State Representative, and Vincent Pinkney, Deputy Director of Managed Care Operations for Tennessee’s state Medicaid agency, discuss the communities where they grew up, how they work with people with different origin stories, and mentors who have shaped their leadership styles. More
Health care cost growth targets, benchmarks for per capita total health care spending, are gaining national attention as one of many tools that can address high health care spending in the US. More
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CT is now able to identify sources of rising health care cost thanks to its health care spending benchmark program. Learn more: https://infogram.com/1p2m6qvl0dj93es0v1l5zpy7n7frpm70w55?live
CT spent $34 billion on healthcare and insurance costs in 2021, up from $31.9 billion in 2019 and $30.9 billion in 2020. The cost growth in 2021 was driven predominantly by increases in commercial health insurance spending. @MilbankFund #affordablehealthcare
A new open-access Milbank Quarterly study, @SFWaltersPhD and colleagues estimate the impact of #Medicare five-star rating on the use of high-quality home health agencies, finding that ratings may lead to inequities at the individual and neighborhood level.https://buff.ly/3FZW1ys
.@SFWaltersPhD and colleagues from @PublicHealthUMN @Brown_SPH, @UCLAFSPH and the VA Center of Innovation in Long-Term Services discuss the unintended consequences of @CMS star ratings for home health agencies in a new open-access Milbank Quarterly study: https://buff.ly/3M49eKd
Health system mergers are unlikely to lower cost or improve care, say Lawton Robert Burns and Mark V. Paul of @Wharton in a new article. Governing boards must assume greater oversight of CEO actions that yield no benefits to hospitals or their communities https://buff.ly/42Q7E4H
What’s driving the spread of “Big Med”? Lawton Robert Burns and Mark V. Paul of @Wharton say it’s most likely CEO compensation https://buff.ly/42Q7E4H CC @jbendix
The 2023 #HealthRankings are here! Explore your county’s data and learn how civic infrastructure and participation influence health: https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/__?&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rankings2023
