NIHCM Awards $500,000 in Research Grants

The 2025–2026 NIHCM Research Grantees will generate novel, policy-relevant evidence on health care affordability, access, and quality, examining topics such as AI scribes, perinatal market concentration, specialty drug pricing, and more.

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Published on: February 12, 2026.

The Cancer Burden in the United States

NIHCM's latest newsletter explores cancer trends, GLP-1 use during pregnancy, and maternal and child health. Read the exclusive interview with Hannah Neprash, PhD, on how ambient AI scribes may be impacting health care billing in unintended ways.

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Data Visualization

90%

of the $4.5 trillion spent on US health care in 2022 was to care for people experiencing chronic physical and mental health conditions.

Nearly 200

rural hospitals have closed or discontinued inpatient services since 2005.