What Have You Been Reading? Our Top Reports of 2015

In 2015, the Milbank Memorial Fund published reports and issue briefs on a wide range of topics in health policy. A look back at our new publications in 2015 reveal three that were our most popular. You can read them here, if you missed them earlier.

The Role of State Medicaid Directors: A Leadership Imperative
Written by Andy Allison, former Medicaid director in two states, the report looked at current trends in medical policy, organization, and leadership. The report explains that failure to closely examine Medicaid’s organization and leadership will misspend taxpayer contributions, hinder needed health care reform, and compromise the health care of a significant portion of each state’s citizens.

When State Leaders and Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives Come Together
This issue brief, published with the Network for Regional Health Improvement, focuses on a Fund-supported meeting in which leaders from eight states sat down with representatives from their own state’s local private sector health improvement collaboratives. They shared information and worked together on state-level agendas aimed at health care measurement and improvement.

State Models for Health Care Cost Measurement: A Policy and Operational Framework
Dollars spent on health care are dollars not available for other uses. Understanding the rate at which costs are growing—and the growth rate the economy can bear—is important for the financial health of any state. This report looks at total cost of care measurement activities in four states and the policy priorities in each state that are driving the activity.