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Blog Post
September 2017 Christopher F. Koller,
Sandy Praeger did not seek to be a leader. “Local party officials had to keep asking me,” she said of her first public position as a member of the… More
News Article
August 2017
In late July, Massachusetts signed a revised marijuana bill into law. The legislation was a long time coming, and ended two-and-a-half years of work… More
Many state health policy leaders are interested in telehealth—the use of technology to deliver health care to patients in a setting different from… More
Publication
Many state health policy leaders are interested in telehealth as a way of expanding patient access to care, especially in rural areas. This report looks at ways to expand and clarify telehealth reimbursement policies, especially as they relate to private payers. More
June 2017
Promoting the operational, financial, and administrative integration of behavioral and physical health services (behavioral health integration or BHI)… More
April 2017
Every year, meetings of the Reforming States Group (RSG) bring together a bipartisan, voluntary group of state health policy leaders from the… More
Chuck Hunter was a member of the Montana House of Representatives for eight years and its minority leader for the last four. Before running for the… More
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The Milbank State Leadership Network is a bipartisan group of state health policy leaders from both the executive and legislative branches. More
March 2017
Today’s health policy debates have brought more focus to state health policy flexibility and accountability. The Reforming States Group’s Letter… More
January 2017
The following topics were the subject of presentations at the fall Reforming States Group meetings: Aging — presentations focused on… More
