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To address primary care workforce shortages and access problems, nearly 20 states are engaged in efforts to strategically invest in primary care. In a new report, Vida Joan Foubister profiles efforts in five states — California, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and Virginia — that are at different stages of enacting and implementing primary care spending targets. All five states are represented in the Primary Care Investment Network supported by The Commonwealth Fund, the Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC) and the Milbank Memorial Fund.?CC Cory King Lauryn Walker Lisa P. Sementilli Christina Foss Kathryn E. Phillips Beth Bortz

Discover how depolarization efforts among state public sector leaders can contribute to improved health outcomes in a new American Journal of Public Health article by Milbank's Morgan McDonald, MD FACP FAAP

ICYMI: Many thanks to Milbank Memorial Fund President Chris Koller for talking with ACAP CEO Meg Murray on our latest Coffee Break podcast episode.?? ? As founding chair of ACAP’s board, Chris takes us back a quarter century to the Association’s beginnings and shares what he’d like to see ACAP achieve in the next decade. Listen: https://bit.ly/4hHbZ0Z

Missed The Milbank Quarterly webinar, Medicaid Prerelease and Transition Services for Incarcerated Individuals? Watch the recording to hear from Sanjay Basu, Harold Pollack, Cameron Adams of Arizona Medicaid, and Autumn Boylan, M.P.H. of the California Department of Health Care Services

The Affordable Care Act established free preventive care requirements for nearly all forms of health insurance based on recommendations from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and experts from the Health Resources and Services Administration. In a new?Milbank Quarterly?Opinion, Sara Rosenbaum of the George Washington University describes ongoing litigation focused on the constitutionality of the?recommendations of the USPSTF—whose members are not appointed by the Senate—that could threaten the coverage of preventive services, including colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and lung cancer screening. While the Trump administration’s defense of the USPSTF recommendations may seem surprising, she argues that it is part of the administration’s effort to control all policies governing preventive health care and give more power to the US Health and Human Services Secretary. “Today, the Trump administration and advocates for a comprehensive public health approach to preventive care are allies in a common cause to save the constitutionality of the USPSTF,” Rosenbaum says. “Should the administration begin to use its power to unravel coverage, an alliance presumably will no longer be the case.” https://lnkd.in/e2_5xD7f

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Under the Inflation Reduction Act, the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program allows Medicare to negotiate the prices of certain drugs with pharmaceutical companies to ensure that people with Medicare have access to innovative cures and therapies at a reasonable price. In a new?Milbank Quarterly?guest Opinion, Kristi Martin and Meena Seshamani, former leaders at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,?highlight the challenges of?implementing an ambitious initiative?within a large organization and share lessons learned from their experience with the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program. “The three key strategies of our implementation journey — inclusive and nimble hiring, balance of speed and quality, and early definition of goals — enabled us to overcome complicated processes, slow decision-making, and isolated silos that can plague all large organizations, public and private,” the authors say. https://lnkd.in/eAJ6V2ph

How’s the Health of US Primary Care? Get the latest picture as well as promising practices and policies in the 2025 Primary Care Scorecard report and state data dashboard. https://lnkd.in/e67u8BSn

Increasingly, consolidated hospitals and health systems are using their market power to demand ever-higher reimbursement rates from commercial health plans. In a new Peterson-Milbank report, Sabrina Corlette and Karen Davenport Davenport of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms discuss an enhanced form of?health insurance rate review?that states can use to counter the pricing power of hospitals and health systems, reduce cost growth, and provide premium relief to consumers and employers.? Under enhanced rate review, state departments of insurance have authority to focus on, and hold insurers accountable for, the underlying factors driving premium rate increases. Where implemented, it has proven effective at reducing the rate of insurance premium growth. Drawing on the experience of Rhode Island, Colorado, and Delaware, this report provides a step-by-step roadmap for states to design, build support for, implement, and maintain a successful and effective enhanced rate review program.??? Enhanced rate review can hold both insurers and hospitals accountable to a desired rate of cost growth, the authors say. https://lnkd.in/eDvKeK_Z

State governments, hospitals and health centers, seniors, children, and people with disabilities will suffer under the proposed House Medicaid cuts. Learn more this essential program.