Primary Care Spending Targets

In the absence of a national standard for categorizing non-claims payments, the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) developed a new framework to categorize and collect non-claims payment data.   More

Invited testimony by Milbank Memorial Fund President Christopher Koller at the US Senate Budget Hearing on How Primary Care Improves Health Care Efficiency. More

A new versatile, three-step approach to identifying primary care services in claims data incorporates information about clinician, organization, and facility types and better reflects real-world practice.  More

Last June, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health requested input from the public — including providers, payers, purchasers, advocates researchers, and others  — about the federal government’s role in strengthening primary health care. More

Evidence suggests strong primary care is foundational to health system transformation. It can help people lead long, healthy lives and improve health… More

A recent report commissioned by the New England States Consortium Systems Organization (NESCSO), with support from the Milbank Memorial Fund, found that spending on primary care in six New England States varies widely from 4.9% to 8%, representing an average of 5.5% of overall health care spending. More

The Delaware Department of Insurance Office of Value-Based Healthcare Delivery has recommended three “affordability standards,” including a… More

Strengthening primary care in the United States has been a prominent health policy topic for more than 13 years, tracing back to the publication of… More