Publications

The Milbank Memorial Fund has published The Milbank Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal of population health and health policy since 1923. It has commissioned and published reports since early in the last century and, beginning in the early 1990s, published a series called Milbank Reports. From 1999 to 2013, the Fund co-published with the University of California Press a series of books titled California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public. The Fund currently publishes reports, issue briefs (shorter papers), case studies, and Milbank-Supported Reports, reports published with partner organizations.

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Hospital Mergers and Public Accountability: Tennessee and Virginia Employ a Certificate of Public Advantage

September 26, 2018 | Erin C. Fuse Brown
How are states responding to the growing trend of hospital system mergers? Some states have responded by issuing certificates of public advantage (COPAs), a legal mechanism through which they can approve mergers that reduce or eliminate competition in return for commitments to make public benefit investments and control health care cost growth. In effect, a COPA creates a state-monitored monopoly—or a public utility model of health care delivery. This report describes the experience of Tennessee and Virginia.
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Bundling, Benchmarking, and Beyond: Paying for Value in Home- and Community-Based Services

July 11, 2018 | Andrea D. Bennett, Pam Curtis, and Curtis S. Harrod
As the US population ages, the demand for long-term care options has grown. Special focus has been on Medicaid programs, which pay for most long-term…
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Views from the Heartland: Prospects for Bipartisanship in Health Reform

April 26, 2018 | David K. Jones
Last year’s “repeal and replace” fight in Congress underscored how deep—and deeply confusing—disagreements over health care policy can be. Author David K. Jones traveled to Colorado and Kansas to find out what Republican and Democrat legislators were concerned about now when it comes to health reform. What does the bipartisan conversation look like in these states?
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State Population Health Strategies that Make a Difference

October 12, 2017 | David K. Jones, PhD, and Christopher J. Louis, PhD
We know that state health policy can play an important role in improving population health. But where have there been objective improvements in the health of residents? How were those improvements achieved and what are the lessons?
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Telehealth Private Payer Laws: Impact and Issues

August 23, 2017 | the Center for Connected Health Policy
Many state health policy leaders are interested in telehealth as a way of expanding patient access to care, especially in rural areas. This report looks at ways to expand and clarify telehealth reimbursement policies, especially as they relate to private payers.
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Standardizing the Measurement of Commercial Health Plan Primary Care Spending

July 25, 2017 | Michael H. Bailit, Mark W. Friedberg, and Margaret L. Houy
Primary care is often acknowledged as the foundation of any high-performing health care delivery system. But how much of our health dollars go to supporting it?
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State Policy Capacity and Leadership for Health Reform

April 10, 2017 | Pierre-Gerlier Forest, W. David Helms
What does it take in terms of staff, leadership, and resources to plan and implement new policies? The Affordable Care Act (ACA) may have been the largest complex piece of social policy legislation passed by Congress since Medicaid and Medicare—and it won’t be the last. This report examines state health policy capacity and leadership—and is especially important given the continuing debate about changes to the ACA and improving health care delivery in the United States.
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Letter to the New Administration

December 15, 2016
The Reforming States Group, one of the nation’s only bipartisan groups of state health policy leaders, has endorsed a Letter to the New Administration.
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How Can States Support an Aging Population? Actions Policymakers Can Take

June 8, 2016 | Lindsay Goldman, Robert Wolf
It is projected that by 2050, 83.7 million Americans will be over the age of 65, almost double the number who were that age in 2012. What can states do to support an aging population?
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Investing In Social Services for States’ Health: Identifying and Overcoming the Barriers

May 20, 2016 | Erika Rogan, Elizabeth Bradley
More and more attention is being paid to the social determinants of health—the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age,…