The Milbank Memorial Fund is an endowed operating foundation that engages in nonpartisan analysis, study, research, and communication on significant issues in health policy. The Fund has worked since its inception in 1905 to enhance leadership in public health. The goal of this publication is to inform and enlarge the constituency for enhancing leadership in public health. The intention is to have the issues raised in this report discussed by public health professionals and their colleagues in the legislative and executive branches of government.

Editorial by the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration about the Resource-based relative value scale and physician payment reform.