The Fund supports networks of state health policy decision makers to help identify, inspire, and inform policy leaders.
The Milbank Memorial Fund supports two state leadership programs for legislative and executive branch state government officials committed to improving population health.
The Fund identifies and shares policy ideas and analysis to advance state health leadership, strong primary care, and sustainable health care costs.
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The Fund publishes The Milbank Quarterly, as well as reports, issues briefs, and case studies on topics important to health policy leaders.
The Milbank Memorial Fund is is a foundation that works to improve population health and health equity.
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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April 2024 Vinayak Sinha, Emma Rourke, Mary Jo Condon, William Brandel,
This brief offers recommendations for a definition and standardized methodology supported by a detailed code set to measure how much payers spend on behavioral health clinical services, which includes claims and non-claims spending. More
Toolkit
April 2024 Nathan Pauly, Lauren Sears, Amy Zhan, Kevin McAvey, Sarah Kinsler, Peter Hayes, Christopher Romero-Gutierrez, Michael Bailit,
A new series of Peterson-Milbank analytics support resources offers insight into how to use publicly available data sources to examine the financial condition of hospitals, as well as identify opportunities to reduce health care spending growth while avoiding any unintended consequences that might result. More
March 2024 Howard Haft, Craig Jones,
In this report, we share insights gained from our experience working with CMMI on innovative state-led primary care programs in Vermont and Maryland, presenting key elements of approaches to invest new primary care dollars. More
Testimony
March 2024 Christopher F. Koller,
Invited testimony by Milbank Memorial Fund President Christopher Koller at the US Senate Budget Hearing on How Primary Care Improves Health Care Efficiency. More
February 2024 Yalda Jabbarpour, Anuradha Jetty, Hoon Byun, Anam Siddiqi, Stephen Petterson, Jeongyoung Park,
This year’s Scorecard report assesses the health of primary care at the federal level using measures of access, financing, workforce/training, and research More
January 2024 Erin C. Fuse Brown, Katherine L. Gudiksen,
Erin C. Fuse Brown of Georgia State University and Katherine L. Gudiksen of the Source on Healthcare Price and Competition offer recommendations and policy considerations for state policymakers to strengthen oversight authority of health care transactions. More
Issue Brief
December 2023 Jonathan Staloff, Max Birger, Lingmei Zhou, Ashok Reddy, Christopher Chen, Judy Zerzan-Thul, Joshua M. Liao,
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
November 2023 Maanasa Kona, Jalisa Clark, Emma Walsh-Alker,
In a series of five case studies (Grant County, New Mexico; Baltimore City, Maryland; Columbia County, Arkansas; Detroit, Michigan; and Kanawha County, West Virginia), we investigated the impact of policy initiatives that target primary care access at a local level. More
November 2023 Nathan Pauly, Lauren Sears, Amy Zhan, Kevin McAvey,
The Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs had developed a suite of analytic resources on health care cost and affordability data to provide states with direction on how to access, integrate, and analyze health care data resources. More
Fact Sheet
October 2023 Sofia Espinosa, Mary Louise Gilburg,
EVENT DATE: July 21, 2023 Conveners Morgan McDonald, MD, Milbank Memorial FundMichael Sparer, JD, PhD, Columbia University Mailman School of… More