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August 2016
The first woman to be elected to the Massachusetts State Senate, Senator Harriette Chandler has served as a state legislator for over 20 years. She is… More
July 2016
Events and publications have marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of Avedis Donabedian’s seminal article on quality measurement.… More
June 2016
As the end of the month approaches, so does the end of phase one of SMART-D, the State Medicaid Alternative Reimbursement and Purchasing Test for High-Cost Drugs. A project of the Center for Evidence-based Policy (CEbP) at Oregon Health and Science University, SMART-D is part of a series of grants from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. More
In May, CMS’s Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (the Innovation Center) held its annual Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative… More
May 2016
Put “palooza” at the end of “data”—and you get a sense of overflowing information and potential. That is the concept behind the Health Datapalooza conference, an opportunity to focus on accelerating the use of data to improve health. Hosted by AcademyHealth, the seventh annual conference was held in Washington, DC, in early May. More
April 2016
Howard Markel, MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of The Milbank Quarterly, was inducted into the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars on April 11. He is also the George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine and director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan. More
In March, the Milbank Memorial Fund brought together officials from six states to talk about the role of managed care organizations (MCOs) in state… More
This has been a big week for supporters of multi-payer alignment in health care and primary care transformation. On Monday, April 11, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) announced that they will be implementing a new payment model—Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+). On Thursday, they released much delayed results from the evaluation of the second-year performance of the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative payment model, the precursor to CPC+. More
March 2016
Is data the plural of anecdote? What is the value of using evidence—research and studies—to help inform policy and budget decisions? How do you… More
How fast are health care costs growing in your state? What services or populations seem to be contributing most to those cost increases? Understanding… More