The Milbank Blog

“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

Substance use–related deaths among individuals in jail and prison have increased over time and people recently released from incarceration are at…  More

I’ve long aspired to become a doctor, a passion that was kindled by witnessing the unwavering commitment my parents had to the field of medicine in…  More

Congress, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and some state Medicaid authorities are proposing or are in the process of…  More