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October 2024
Two recent Milbank Quarterly studies explored policy opportunities to improve prevention and access to obesity treatment in the United States… More
September 2024
Join a webinar on October 2, 2024, from 1 to 2 pm ET, with Freedman HealthCare on a new standardized methodology and code set to measure how much payers spend on behavioral health clinical services. More
July 2024
What: Two recent Milbank Quarterly studies explored state policies to improve opioid prescription safety. On July 30, 2024, the authors and NYU’s… More
The US health sector is vast, with annual national health expenditures estimated at $5.0 trillion. There is no single source of publicly available… More
March 2024
Join a Peterson-Milbank for Sustainable Health Care Program webinar, Leveraging Hospital Financial Analyses to Inform State Policy, on April 9, 2024, from 2 to 3 p.m. ET, for a look at the forthcoming “Guide to Hospital Financial Analyses,” and a discussion with state leaders who are using this data to inform their understanding of their health care markets and potential policy responses. More
In a Milbank Quarterly webinar on Tuesday, March 12 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET, researchers will discuss frameworks for understanding the ways that industry shapes public policy, and how to develop regulatory environments that incentivize or constrain the commercial sector as needed to advance population health. More
February 2024
Primary care is the foundation of the US health care system. Yet more and more people report not having a regular place for care. In the second… More
October 2023
Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a new state total cost of care model called the States Advancing All-Payer… More
June 2023
Over the past century, US health care has become increasingly publicly financed yet investor-owned, according to a recent Milbank Quarterly study. At… More
April 2023
Join the the Milbank Memorial Fund and the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) for a virtual webinar for state officials that will use state examples to describe key decisions and trade-offs to take into consideration when developing measurement and reporting methodologies for primary care investment. More
