Research Grants

NIHCM Foundation supports innovative investigator-initiated research with high potential to inform improvements to the U.S. health care system. Projects must advance the existing knowledge base in the areas of health care financing, delivery, management and/or policy.

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Current applicants will be notified of the status of their submission in August.

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Research Grants

January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019

Very High and Low Residual Spenders in Private Health Insurance Markets

Tom McGuire, Harvard University

Funding Cycle

Zirui Song, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

Research Grants

January 01, 2023 - December 31, 2023

In the Shadows of Trauma: The Economic and Clinical Impact of Childhood Firearm Injuries on Survivors and Family Members

Zirui Song, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

Research Grants

February 01, 2023 - June 30, 2024

Evaluating Automatic Enrollment into Marketplace Coverage During the Unwinding of the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Policy: a Two-State Study

Adrianna McIntyre, Harvard University

Yunyu Xiao, Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences

Research Grants

January 20, 2023 - January 19, 2024

Do Hospital Partnerships with Community-Based Organizations that Address Social Determinants of Health Reduce Hospital Readmission and Mortality?

Yunyu Xiao, Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences

Meredith Matone, University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Research Grants

March 01, 2023 - February 29, 2024

A State-wide Study of Childbirth-Related Opioid Exposure and Conversion to Postpartum High-Risk Opioid Use

Meredith Matone, University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Avik Roy, Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP)

Research Grants

January 01, 2023 - January 01, 2024

Debunking the Myth that High Drug Prices Accelerate Innovation

Avik Roy, Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP)

Ola Abdelhadi, University of California, Berkeley

Research Grants

January 01, 2023 - August 31, 2023

Increasing Private Equity Investment in Cancer Care: What is the Effect on Prices and Quality of Care?

Ola Abdelhadi, University of California, Berkeley

Research Grants

January 01, 2023 - June 30, 2023

Can Improving Pharmaceutical Patent Quality Promote Competition and Reduce Drug Prices?

Bhaven N. Sampat, Columbia University

Chanup Jeung, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Research Grants

January 01, 2023 - June 30, 2024

Increasing Access to Postpartum Mental Health Care via Telehealth: Evidence from Medicaid Coverage of Mental Health Services in Massachusetts

Chanup Jeung, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Dan Ly, University of California, Los Angeles & VA Greater Los Angeles

Research Grants

January 01, 2023 - December 31, 2023

Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Timeliness of Diabetes Care

Dan Ly, University of California, Los Angeles & VA Greater Los Angeles

Research Grants

January 01, 2023 - December 31, 2024

The Effect of Hospital Ransomware Attacks on Health Care Delivery and Patient Outcomes

Hannah Neprash, University of Minnesota

S. Sean Tu, West Virginia University College of Law

Research Grants

June 01, 2023 - May 31, 2024

Improving Competitive Drug Markets by Reviewing Patents

S. Sean Tu, West Virginia University College of Law

Research Grants

January 01, 2023 - December 31, 2023

The Effects of Physicians’ Financial Transfers from Drug Firms on Prescribing of Physician-Administered Cancer Drugs

Colleen Carey, Cornell University

Research Grants

January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022

Defining the Digital Divide: Implications for Improving Access to Care

Wendy Brunner, Bassett Medical Center

Mark Clapp, Massachusetts General Hospital

Research Grants

January 01, 2022 - June 30, 2023

Assessing Postpartum Care Among Medicaid Beneficiaries in an Era of Expanded Access and Telehealth Services

Mark Clapp, Massachusetts General Hospital

Research Grants

February 01, 2022 - June 30, 2023

Marginalized/Minoritized Communities, Health Equity and Medicaid Telehealth Policy

Alison Cuellar, George Mason University

Keith Marzilli Ericson, Boston University

Research Grants

January 01, 2022 - July 01, 2023

Redesigning Payment Policy for Physician-Administered Drugs

Keith Marzilli Ericson, Boston University

Research Grants

January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022

Delivering Medicaid Mental Health Services and Supports in Schools

Vinu Ilakkuvan, PoP Health, LLC

Tim McDonald, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Research Grants

January 01, 2022 - June 30, 2023

Can Medical Practices Afford to Increase Efficiency?

Tim McDonald, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Research Grants

January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022

Making Primary Care Count: Intended and Unintended Consequences of the Evaluation & Management Payment Change

Hannah Neprash, University of Minnesota

Research Grants

January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2023

Vertical Integration of Specialty Physician Practices and the Association with Private Equity Acquisition of Short-Term Acute Care Hospitals

James Roberts, Duke University

James Robinson, University of California, Berkeley

Research Grants

January 01, 2022 - June 30, 2023

Provider Price Strategies and Insurer Counter-Strategies for Infused Drugs in Hospital and Independent Sites of Care

James Robinson, University of California, Berkeley

Sarah Walsh, Eastern Michigan University

Research Grants

January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022

Meals on Wheels Services and Healthcare Utilization Among Frail Older Adults Over Time

Sarah Walsh, Eastern Michigan University

Katherine Bowman, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Research Grants

January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022

Forum on Traumatic Brain Injury

Katherine Bowman, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Research Grants

January 01, 2021 - June 30, 2022

Impact of Medicaid Provider Incentives for Postpartum LARC Provision on Postpartum Contraceptive Use

Jessica Cohen, Harvard University

Genevieve Kanter, University of Pennsylvania

Research Grants

January 01, 2021 - December 31, 2022

Medically Integrated Dispensing in Oncology

Genevieve Kanter, University of Pennsylvania

Research Grants

February 01, 2021 - May 30, 2022

How Did the Pandemic Change Care for Patients with Chronic Conditions?

Alison Cuellar, George Mason University

Tim Brown, University of California, Berkeley

Research Grants

May 01, 2021 - July 20, 2022

The Causal Effect of High-Quality Physician-Patient Relationships on Healthcare Costs and Outcomes: Differences by Race/Ethnicity and the Effect of Racial/Ethnic Concordance

Tim Brown, University of California, Berkeley

Jamie Robinson, University of California, Berkeley

Research Grants

January 01, 2021 - June 30, 2022

Price and Quality for Ambulatory Surgery: Differences Between Hospital-Based and Freestanding Centers

Jamie Robinson, University of California, Berkeley

Research Grants

March 01, 2021 - February 28, 2022

Nudging Providers to Curtail Dangerous Opioid Prescribing and Improve the Safety of the Health Care Delivery System

Adam Sacarny, Columbia University

Jane Zhu, Oregon Health and Science University

Research Grants

January 01, 2021 - January 31, 2023

Private Equity Acquisitions of Physician Medical Practices and Implications for Practice Patterns and Costs of Care

Jane Zhu, Oregon Health and Science University

Nicholas Tilipman, University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Grants

January 01, 2021 - August 31, 2022

Provider Market Power and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from the California Benefits Exchange

Nicholas Tilipman, University of Illinois at Chicago

Aaron Mitchell, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Research Grants

January 01, 2021 - December 31, 2022

Can Conflict of Interest with the Drug Industry Harm Patients?

Aaron Mitchell, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Research Grants

June 01, 2020 - July 31, 2021

Health and Economic Incidence of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Maria Polyakova, Stanford University

Amol Navathe, University of Pennsylvania

Research Grants

June 01, 2020 - December 31, 2022

The Impact of COVID-19 on Health Care Spending and Practice Patterns

Amol Navathe, University of Pennsylvania

Coleman D. Drake, University of Pittsburgh

Research Grants

March 01, 2020 - November 30, 2020

Nothing Matters: The Zero-Price Effect in the Individual Insurance Market

Coleman D. Drake, University of Pittsburgh

Principal Investigator: Russell J. Funk, University of Minnesota

Research Grants

January 01, 2020 - June 30, 2022

Competitive Dynamics of Physician Referrals in the Era of ACOs

Principal Investigator: Russell J. Funk, University of Minnesota

Principal Investigator: Josh Feng, University of Utah

Research Grants

January 01, 2020 - January 31, 2021

The Impact of Consolidation on Prescription Drug Pricing and Access

Principal Investigator: Josh Feng, University of Utah

Principal Investigator: Pierre Thomas Léger, University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Grants

June 01, 2020 - August 31, 2022

Geographic Variation in Medicare and Commercial Spending

Principal Investigator: Pierre Thomas Léger, University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Grants

January 06, 2020 - July 31, 2021

Variation Across Health Systems in the Overuse of Healthcare Resources by Older Adults in the United States

Jodi B. Segal, Johns Hopkins University

Sarah Axeen, University of Southern California

Research Grants

January 01, 2020 - April 30, 2021

Measuring the Value of Emergency Mental Health Care

Sarah Axeen, University of Southern California

Mei Kwong, Center for Connected Health Policy

Research Grants

January 01, 2020 - September 30, 2020

Policy Changes that Need to be Made for FQHCs to Utilize Telehealth to Address the Opioid Crisis

Mei Kwong, Center for Connected Health Policy

Research Grants

January 01, 2020 - June 30, 2022

Improving Postpartum Health through Increased Medicaid Coverage after Childbirth

Maria Steenland, Brown University

Ashvin Gandhi, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Grants

January 01, 2020 - July 31, 2022

Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Ashvin Gandhi, University of California, Los Angeles

Principal Investigator: Steven D. Pearson, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review

Research Grants

January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019

Valuing a Cure: Evaluating Different Approaches to Determine a Value-Based Price for a Potential Cure

Principal Investigator: Steven D. Pearson, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review

Research Grants

January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019

Very High and Low Residual Spenders in Private Health Insurance Markets

Tom McGuire, Harvard University

Matthew Grennan (currently at UC Berkeley), Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Research Grants

January 01, 2019 - September 30, 2020

Persuasion and Welfare in Physician-Industry Relations: Evidence from the Medical Device Industry

Matthew Grennan (currently at UC Berkeley), Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Research Grants

January 01, 2019 - March 31, 2021

Effects of Tiered Physician Networks on Health Care Use and Provider Behavior

Anna Sinaiko, Harvard University

Research Grants

January 01, 2019 - March 31, 2021

The Impact of Hospital Consolidation on Care Access, Quality, and Disparities for Low-Income Populations: Evidence from New York Medicaid

Sunita Desai, New York University

Research Grants

January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2023

Why Does the US Overinvest in Technology? The Curious Case of MRI Scanners

Zack Cooper, Yale University

Bassam Dahman, Virginia Commonwealth University

Research Grants

January 01, 2019 - March 31, 2022

Impact of ACA Medicaid Expansions on Prenatal Care Utilization and Birth Outcomes

Bassam Dahman, Virginia Commonwealth University

Research Grants

March 01, 2018 - February 28, 2019

Measuring Systemic Overuse in the Privately Insured

Jodi Segal, Johns Hopkins University

Research Grants

January 01, 2018 - June 30, 2019

The Effects of Expanded Access to LARCs on Women’s Outcomes

Jason Lindo, Texas A&M University

Julie Lauffenburger, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Research Grants

January 01, 2018 - March 31, 2019

Addressing Modifiable Healthcare Spending Through Dynamic Modeling Approaches

Julie Lauffenburger, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Research Grants

January 01, 2018 - December 31, 2019

The Effects of Physician-Hospital Integration on Health Care Spending and Use

Anne Royalty, Indiana University

Research Grants

January 01, 2018 - January 01, 2020

The Impact of Reference Pricing on Hospital-Insurer Bargaining

Christopher Whaley, RAND Corporation

Research Grants

January 01, 2018 - December 31, 2018

Policy Approaches to Insure High Risks

Maria Polyakova, Stanford University

Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California

Research Grants

January 01, 2017 - December 31, 2018

Consumer Directed Health Plan Impact on Low-Value Service Utilization and Spending

Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California

Susan Sawning, University of Louisville School of Medicine

Research Grants

January 01, 2017 - August 31, 2018

eQuality: Improving LGBT, GNC, and DSD Health Through a Comprehensive Medical School Training Program

Susan Sawning, University of Louisville School of Medicine

Research Grants

January 01, 2017 - December 31, 2018

Patterns and Determinants of Inappropriate Diagnostic Imaging

Gary Young, Northeastern University

Kimberley Geissler, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research Grants

January 01, 2017 - December 31, 2018

Evaluating and Improving Post-Hospitalization Mental Health Follow-Up Care

Kimberley Geissler, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research Grants

September 01, 2016 - December 31, 2017

Selected Market Failures in Health Care: Analyzing the Scope, Causes, and Potential Solutions

Zack Cooper, Yale University

Research Grants

January 01, 2017 - December 31, 2017

Promoting Better Pain Management Outcomes: Precision Decision Support for Opioid Prescription

Ritu Agarwal, University of Maryland

Research Grants

February 01, 2016 - July 31, 2017

Evaluation of Affordable Care Act Policies to Encourage Accurate Prices for Medicare Services

Miriam Laugesen, Columbia University

Prachi Sanghavi, The University of Chicago

Research Grants

January 01, 2016 - October 31, 2017

How Do Patients Rate Experiences with Physicians Who Provide More Low-Value Services?

Prachi Sanghavi, The University of Chicago

Research Grants

January 01, 2016 - December 31, 2016

An Empirical Investigation of Potential Manipulation in the Nursing Home Rating System

Niam Yaraghi, The Brookings Institution

Ziad Obermeyer, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Research Grants

January 01, 2016 - December 31, 2016

Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of High-Risk Care Management through Machine Learning

Ziad Obermeyer, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Stephen Patrick, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Research Grants

January 01, 2016 - March 31, 2018

The Prescription Opioid Epidemic: Understanding Its Complications and the Effectiveness of State Policies

Stephen Patrick, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Allison Lipitz-Snyderman, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Research Grants

May 01, 2016 - April 30, 2017

Physician-Driven Overuse of Services for Patients with Advanced Cancer

Allison Lipitz-Snyderman, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Research Grants

February 01, 2015 - January 31, 2016

Physician Practice Organization and Health Care Delivery and Costs

Laurence Baker, Stanford University

Research Grants

January 12, 2015 - January 11, 2016

Do Higher Priced Providers Deliver Higher Quality Care? An Analysis of the Price/Quality Relationship Using HCCI Data

Zack Cooper, Yale University

Research Grants

January 01, 2015 - June 30, 2016

How Are Physician Referral Networks Affected by Physician Practice Ownership and Limited Coverage Network Insurance Products?

Keith Marzilli Ericson, Boston University

Research Grants

January 01, 2015 - April 30, 2016

Physician Practice Styles and Overuse of Healthcare Services

Allison Lipitz-Snyderman, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Research Grants

January 01, 2014 - June 30, 2015

The Impact of Payment Reform on Physician Referrals, Patient Flows and Health Care Costs

Bruce Landon, Harvard University

Gloria Bazzoli, Virginia Commonwealth University

Research Grants

January 01, 2014 - March 15, 2015

Assessing the Impact of Integrated Case Management on Health Services Use and Costs in Medicaid

Gloria Bazzoli, Virginia Commonwealth University

Research Grants

January 01, 2014 - March 31, 2015

Variations in Patient Experience with Tiered Physician Networks

Anna Sinaiko, Harvard University

Jonathan Ketcham, Arizona State University

Research Grants

January 01, 2014 - December 31, 2014

Identifying Winners and Losers Under Proposals to Simplify Drug Plan Choice in Medicare Part D

Jonathan Ketcham, Arizona State University

Research Grants

January 01, 2013 - January 15, 2014

Hospital Acquisition of Physician Practices and Health Care Delivery and Costs

Laurence Baker, Stanford University

Research Grants

January 01, 2013 - October 31, 2013

Evaluating Coverage, Utilization and Access to Care in Medicaid “Early Expander” States Under the Affordable Care Act

Ben Sommers, Harvard University