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Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH
Associate Clinical Professor
UC Medical Center and
Medical Director of the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) and the U.S. Health Care Thought Leader at Mercer Health & Benefits
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Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH
Chief Physician and US. Thought Leader
Mercer Health & Benefits
Three Embarcadero Center, Suite 1500
San Francisco, CA 94111
Email: arnold.milstein@mercer.com
Phone: 415-743-8731

Assistant: Emily London
Email:Emily.London@mercer.com
Phone: 415-743-8731

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Research Interests
  • private and public sector health care purchasing strategy
  • clinical performance measurement
  • the psychology of clinical performance improvement
 
Dr. Milstein is the Medical Director of the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) and the U.S. Health Care Thought Leader at Mercer Health & Benefits.  PBGH is the largest employer health care purchasing coalition in the U.S.

He co-founded both the Leapfrog Group and the Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project.  He heads performance measurement activities for both initiatives and is a MedPAC Commissioner.  Previously a Rosenthal Lecturer at the Institute of Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine’s series on employer sponsored health insurance described him as a “pioneer” in efforts to advance quality of care.  In 2004 and 2005, he was selected for the highest annual award of World-at-Work, the largest global organization of human resource managers, and of the National Business Group on Health (NBGH).  The NBGH award cited nationally recognized innovation and implementation success in health care cost reduction and quality gains.  In 2006 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

He was educated at Harvard (BA­Economics), Tufts (MD) and (UC­Berkeley MPH­Health Services Evaluation and Planning). 
 
 

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