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The Seventeenth Annual NIHCM Foundation Health Care Research Award

To encourage outstanding work from researchers furthering innovation in health care policy and management, the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Research and Educational Foundation recognizes excellence in published original and creative research with a $10,000 award.

Definition: 

Award and Prize:

Selection criteria:

1. Originality and creativity of the research
2. Impact that the research may have in advancing the public policy debate or improving health care delivery and management
3. Relevance to one or more of the subject areas (health care financing, delivery and organization and/or the implementation of health care policy)

Eligibility:

1. Articles must have been published in a peer-reviewed journal or similar quality publication during calendar year 2010.
   
2. Applications are encouraged from authors in diverse fields, including economics, health policy, political science, public health, etc. and from individuals in non-academic settings, such as research firms and policy organizations.
3. All research articles must address some aspect of health care financing,  delivery, organization or the implementation of health care policy.

Application process and rules:

1. Entries must be postmarked by February 15, 2011.
   
2. Entries must include TWO copies EACH of:
   1. Completed entry form 
   2. Clear copy (8.5 x 11 inches) of the published research
   3. A brief biography of the author(s). 
      
   4. For entries with multiple authors, a completed co-author contact form
      
   5. A written description of how the article is relevant to the subject areas and its impact; length not to exceed 100 words.
      
3. Limit of two (2) submissions per author
4. Entries can also be submitted electronically to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).  

The winning entry will be selected by an independent panel of health care researchers:

Entries should be submitted by mail/delivery or email to:

Nancy Chockley,  President and CEO
NIHCM Foundation
1225 19th Street, NW, Suite 710
Washington, DC 20036

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Contact NIHCM:

Main number: 202-296-4426
Fax: 202-296-4319
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Congratulations to the Winner of NIHCM Foundation's 16th Annual Health Care Research Award

And the winner is:

Deborah Peikes, Arnold Chen, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown. "Effects of Care Coordination on Hospitalization, Quality of Care, and Health Care Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries: 15 Randomized Trials."  JAMA 301(6): 603-18.

Finalists:

David Card,  Carlos Dobkin, Nicole Maestas. "Does Medicare Save Lives?"  The Quarterly Journal of Economics 124(2): 597-636.

Neeraj Sood,  Arkadipta Ghosh, José Escarce. "Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Health Care Cost Growth, and the Economic Performance of U.S. Industries." Health Services Research 44(5 Pt 1): 1449-64.

Kevin Volpp, Andrea Troxel, Mark Pauly, Henry Glick, Andrea Puig, David Asch,  Robert Galvin, Jingsan Zhu, Fei Wan, Jill DeGuzman, Elizabeth Corbett,  Janet Weiner, Janet Audrain-McGovern. "A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation." The New England Journal of Medicine 360(7): 699-709.

Yuting Zhang, Julie Donohue, Judith Lave, Gerald O'Donnell, Joseph Newhouse. "The Effect of Medicare Part D on Drug and Medical Spending." The New England Journal of Medicine 361(1): 52-61.