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Blog Post
February 2020 Christopher F. Koller,
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate the US reversed a three-year decline in life expectancy in 2018, thanks to gains made in combatting opioid misuse deaths and improved cancer treatment. But in his latest “View from Here,” Milbank Memorial Fund President Christopher Koller writes that the 2018 number is still below where we were in 2014 and is part of plateauing that began in 2011. More
News Article
January 2020 Rachel Block,
Three new state reports—from Colorado, Vermont, and Maine—offer recommendations on how to measure and increase statewide investments in primary care. More
October 2019
In a new “Milbank Quarterly” guest opinion, Delaware’s Health and Human Services Secretary Kara Odom Walker says that any solution that lowers health care costs and improves quality will require a foundation of enhanced primary care. More
Publication
July 2019 Yalda Jabbarpour, Ann Greiner, Anuradha Jetty, Megan Coffman, Charles Jose, Stephen Petterson, Karen Pivaral, Robert Phillips, Andrew Bazemore, Alyssa Neumann Kane,
In a first-of-its-kind study, the 2019 Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) Evidence Report examines states’ primary care spending patterns, including spending across payer types, and considers the implications of these results for select patient outcomes. More
July 2019
Spending on primary care varies widely at the state level—and increased primary care spending is associated with decreases in emergency department visits and hospitalizations, according to the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative’s 2019 Evidence Report. More
June 2019
A first step toward increasing primary care investment is measuring and reporting on existing primary care spending. In 2019, several states introduced legislation on this topic, and Colorado and Vermont now have new laws to advance these policies. More
April 2019
How much does Medicare spend on primary care? As more evidence mounts about the benefits of primary care, a growing number of health policy leaders… More
October 2018
Representatives from state agencies in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont met earlier this month to hear and… More
July 2017 Michael H. Bailit, Mark W. Friedberg, Margaret L. Houy,
Primary care is often acknowledged as the foundation of any high-performing health care delivery system. But how much of our health dollars go to supporting it? More
