The Milbank Blog

Hospitalizations are stressful and costly health events, but they can often be prevented if patients have access to timely, high-quality outpatient…  More

The Supreme Court has overturned longstanding precedent by striking down the “Chevron doctrine” – a 40-year-old standard that required courts to defer to regulatory agencies to interpret ambiguous laws. Experts say it will dramatically change the way key health agencies do business.  More

A year after New York’s new health equity impact assessment law went into effect on June 22, 2023, the initial outcomes of this first-in-the-nation…  More

“If this is love I want my money back” – Hot Tuna  This sentiment may well capture the mood in US primary care today. The 2021 National…  More

Improving communication between patients with non-English language preference and their physicians demands a significant cultural shift, medical education prioritization, and policy change.   More

Over the last few years, health care cost growth target states had to make difficult decisions about whether and how the dramatic increase in inflation should impact existing cost growth target values and/or the process and methodology for setting new cost growth target values.    More

Over the past 40 years, numerous national organizations have called for health data disaggregation — breaking down data into smaller, more precise…  More

Slower systemwide health care spending growth could allow employers to put more dollars into wages or invest it elsewhere.   More

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

Chuck Fahey ended most conversations with individuals and groups with the five words that are the title of this brief celebration of his life and…  More