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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Focus Area
News Article
April 2018
State policymakers want to know how to control health care costs. In fact, global budgeting, the idea of putting a limit on spending, is… More
Blog Post
April 2018 Christopher F. Koller,
Hey, health care industry (all of us, payers, providers, industry hangers-on) are you paying attention to what’s happening in our public schools?… More
January 2018
The Milbank Memorial Fund has teamed up with AcademyHealth to establish a new annual award that recognizes state and local efforts to advance… More
October 2017
We have heard a lot about health care costs lately—and state health leaders and the public have many questions about them. Does my state spend more… More
August 2017 Christopher F. Koller,
With the Senate Affordable Care Act (ACA) “repeal and replace” effort collapsing into partisan rubble (how did you learn about the dramatic US… More
June 2017 Christopher F. Koller,
The game of hot potato ends one of two ways—someone drops the potato as it is being tossed or it finally cools off. But what happens if the potato… More
February 2017 Christopher F. Koller,
From 1997 to 2005, I ran Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island (NHPRI), the state’s largest Medicaid managed care organization. We worked hard to… More
February 2017
Massachusetts is one of several states addressing total health care cost measures. Since 2013, the state’s Health Policy Commission (HPC) has set… More
January 2017 Christopher F. Koller,
Dear Members of Congress: As both Houses continue to debate whether and how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) should be repealed and what it would be… More
November 2016
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is looking for input to support state health innovation reform—either by building on the… More
