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Blog Post
December 2024 Christopher F. Koller,
Saying “no” is hard. It makes others unhappy, so people avoid it when they can — whether they are telling kids or constituents they can’t get… More
September 2024 Kelsey Koenen Witt,
Throughout the country, rising health care costs are constraining employer profits, decreasing employee wages, and crowding out other state spending… More
September 2024 Christopher F. Koller,
A new Medicaid-based program in North Carolina is expected to relieve approximately $4 billion in medical debt. More
May 2024 Christopher F. Koller,
In Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Steward was sent packing and the community staved off the private equity beast. The result has been less than universally satisfying, but as states and communities struggle with health system consolidation, health care affordability, and difficult resource allocation decisions, this story of how the private equity wolves were thwarted may offer lessons. More
Publication
March 2024 Christopher F. Koller,
Invited testimony by Milbank Memorial Fund President Christopher Koller at the US Senate Budget Hearing on How Primary Care Improves Health Care Efficiency. More
News Article
February 2024
This short video explains health care cost growth targets, which set a spending goal that health industry stakeholders commit to in order to identify policies that will make health care more affordable. More
January 2024 Erin C. Fuse Brown, Katherine L. Gudiksen,
Erin C. Fuse Brown of Georgia State University and Katherine L. Gudiksen of the Source on Healthcare Price and Competition offer recommendations and policy considerations for state policymakers to strengthen oversight authority of health care transactions. More
December 2023 Jessica Mar, January Angeles,
Even after accounting for rebates, prescription drug spending has continued to grow at an unaffordable rate, according to a new analysis of three states with health care cost growth targets, More
November 2023 Nathan Pauly, Lauren Sears, Amy Zhan, Kevin McAvey,
The Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs had developed a suite of analytic resources on health care cost and affordability data to provide states with direction on how to access, integrate, and analyze health care data resources. More
October 2023 Mary Louise Gilburg, Christine Haran,
3 Takeaways: Point out that health care costs are not only high, but also inflated and widely variable. Highlight where… More
