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June 2025
Michael S. Sparer, JD, PhD, is chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. More
Kody Kinsley served as North Carolina’s 18th Secretary of Health and Human Services in the administration of Governor Roy Cooper. More
Courtney N. Phillips, PhD, is a currently serving as the vice president of health affairs and chief health officer at Louisiana State University. More
Milbank State Leadership Network State Health Policy Leadership
June 2025 Craig Wilson, Joseph W. Thompson ,
Whether states adopt work requirements voluntarily or implement them pursuant to a federal requirement, they have the advantage of being able to learn from the problems encountered by Arkansas, the first state to implement a Medicaid work requirement. More
Primary Care Transformation
May 2025 Ann M. Nguyen, Alexandra M. Williams, Stephanie Marcello ,
Integrated care functions as a treatment and prevention strategy, where healthy behaviors are established well before they turn into complex, expensive chronic conditions. More
Report Primary Care Transformation
May 2025 Hope Glassberg, Henry Chung, Jordanna Davis, Adam J. Falcone, Alison Gold,
This report offers community health centers, their partners, policymakers, and others a place to start in addressing challenges to implementing value-based payment models, particularly as the safety net faces potential cuts in federal funding for Medicaid. More
Toolkit
May 2025 January Angeles, Erin Taylor,
It requires significant stakeholder engagement to develop buy-in, a robust infrastructure operated with dedicated staff or contract resources for… More
Setting a target, in and of itself, is not sufficient to slow cost growth. States and their partnering stakeholders need to take individual or… More
A critical part of the target program is granular analysis of the health care system’s overall performance and the factors driving costs in the… More
Once the target is set, states need to measure the change in annual per capita health care expenditures against the target. This is done using… More
