Research Briefs

NIHCM’s Research Briefs translate complex academic publications, highlight implications and policy relevance to wide audiences, and showcase expert points of view.

Research Insights

Research Insights contextualizes important studies conducted by NIHCM research grantees and other researchers.

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Expert Voices

Expert Voices features interviews with leading researchers, along with analysis of current health care research.

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Research Insights

Published on: September 19, 2023.

Hospital Concentration Decreases Care for Medicaid Beneficiaries

A new study by Sunita Desai, PhD, and collaborators evaluated the impact of hospital concentration on Medicaid admissions. The latest NIHCM Research Insights explores this study.

Cost & Quality / Health Equity / Health Care Coverage / Provider Consolidation

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Expert Voices

Published on: May 17, 2023.

The Growth of Private Equity in US Health Care: Impact and Outlook

In this first issue of NIHCM’s new and updated publication, Expert Voices, researchers Jane M. Zhu, MD, and Zirui Song, MD, PhD, discuss their outlooks for private equity (PE) involvement in health care and we explore the latest research on how PE impacts cost, quality and utilization of care.

Cost & Quality / Health Care Coverage / Health Care Reform / Private Equity

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Research Insights

Published on: September 19, 2023.

Hospital Concentration Decreases Care for Medicaid Beneficiaries

Cost & Quality / Health Equity / Health Care Coverage / Provider Consolidation

Research Insights

Published on: July 13, 2023.

Shared Decision-Making and Racial or Ethnic Concordance Reduces Health Expenditures

Health Equity / Health Care Coverage / Health Care Reform

Research Insights

Published on: February 21, 2023. Updated on: May 23, 2023.

A Low-Cost Intervention for Better-Informed Opioid Prescribing

Substance Use

Research Insights

Published on: January 18, 2023.

Private Equity Ownership Reshapes Workforce Composition in Physician Practices

Cost & Quality / Health Care Coverage / Health Care Reform / Private Equity

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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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Research Awards

The NIHCM Foundation Health Care Research Award recognizes outstanding published work from researchers furthering innovation in health care financing, delivery and organization or the implementation of health care policy. The 29-year-old award carries a $20,000 prize and is judged by an independent panel of experts.

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