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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Publication
February 2025 Yalda Jabbarpour, Anuradha Jetty, Hoon Byun, Anam Siddiqi, Jeongyoung Park,
This 2025 Primary Care Scorecard spotlights the downward cycle of financing for primary care, describing how persistent challenges in primary care arise from insufficient investment (or in the case of training, misplaced investment) and a fee-for-service (FFS) payment model that rewards volume rather than continuous, whole-person care. This report highlights how these systemic financial issues not only undermine the effectiveness of primary care delivery but, more importantly, jeopardize the overall health of our communities in the following ways. More
Event
February 2025 Mary Louise Gilburg,
As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases and more people report not being able to see a clinician who knows them, the third… More
News Article
April 2024 Christopher F. Koller,
In an April 15, 2024, Opinion in Healthcare Dive, Christopher Koller, president of the Milbank Memorial Fund; Kyu Rhee, president and CEO of the National Association of Community Health Centers; and R. Shawn Martin, executive vice president and CEO of the American Academy of Family Physicians, explain that chronic disinvestment and inadequate training have created a shortage of primary care workers. More
Blog Post
March 2024 Christopher F. Koller,
Ed McGookin had a big problem. Coastal Medical, the 150-physician medical group in Rhode Island that he leads, was facing more competition… 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
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
March 2023 Christopher F. Koller,
How does the national primary care scorecard play in the heart of Texas? More
February 2023 Yalda Jabbarpour, Stephen Petterson, Anuradha Jetty, Hoon Byun,
The first national primary care scorecard, co-funded by the Milbank Memorial Fund and The Physicians Foundation, finds a chronic lack of adequate support for the implementation of high-quality primary care across the United States. More
February 2023
Underinvestment, Workforce Shortages, and Lack of Research Funding Threaten the Future of America’s Primary Care February 22, 2023 — The first… More
Join the Milbank Memorial Fund and the Physicians Foundation for the virtual release of the first national scorecard on the health of US primary care. The inaugural report provides a long overdue measurement tool to track the implementation of high-quality primary care nationwide. More
