Research Grants
NIHCM Foundation supports innovative, independent, investigator-initiated research with a high potential to inform improvements to the United States health care system.
Grants provide funding for:
- Projects that advance the evidence-base in areas such as health care financing, affordability, delivery, management and/or policy
Application Information
We are now accepting letters of inquiry for the 2024-2025 funding cycle of NIHCM Foundation's investigator-initiated research grant program. Building on our long-standing commitment to objective research, NIHCM will make up to $500,000 available to new and existing grantees.
Winning research studies will be selected using the following process:
- Interested researchers must submit a brief letter of inquiry (LOI) outlining their study idea by 5:00 PM EDT on June 28, 2024. Applications are welcome at any time prior to that deadline. LOIs must conform to the required structure and must be submitted using NIHCM’s online entry system (see below).
- Full (10-page) proposals will be invited from a small number of applicants in August and will be due in September 2024.
- NIHCM will notify grant winners in November 2024, for project start dates as early as January 2025.
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January 01, 2024 - December 31, 2024
New Uses of Existing Drugs: The Effects of FDA Regulation and Off-Label Drug Use on Incentives for Pharmaceutical Innovation
Jennifer Kao, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Grants
January 01, 2024 - December 30, 2024
Market, Organizational, and Policy Drivers of Hospital Price Markups for Specialty Drugs
James Robinson, University of California, Berkeley
Research Grants
January 01, 2024 - December 31, 2024
How Does Interchangeability Impact Biosimilar Adoption?
Pragya Kakani, Weill Cornell Medicine & Luca Maini, Harvard Medical School
Research Grants
June 01, 2024 - August 31, 2025
Private Equity’s Effects on Primary Care Practices Participating in Medicare Advantage
Jane Zhu, Oregon Health & Science University
Research Grants
January 01, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Spillover Effects of Private Equity Acquisitions of Physician Practices on Local Market Competitors: Implications for Access to Care
Yashaswini Singh, Brown University
Research Grants
January 01, 2024 - December 31, 2024
A Double-Edged Sword: Evaluating the Role of Telehealth Expansion and Contraction in the US Opioid Crisis
Niam Yaraghi, University of Miami/Brookings Institution
Research Grants
January 01, 2024 - December 31, 2024
The Effect of AI-Enabled Clinical Software on Health Care Spending and Health Outcomes
Anna Zink, University of Chicago & Hannah Neprash, University of Minnesota
Research Grants
January 01, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Impact of Capitation Payment Models on Kidney Health Outcomes
Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, Weill Cornell
Research Grants
January 01, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Hospital Price Transparency Rule in Price Reduction
John X Jiang, Michigan State University
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
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
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
Research Grants
March 01, 2023 - August 31, 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
Research Grants
January 01, 2023 - March 01, 2024
Debunking the Myth that High Drug Prices Accelerate Innovation
Avik Roy, Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP)
Research Grants
January 01, 2023 - February 29, 2024
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, Arizona State University (formerly Columbia University)
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 at Albany, State University of New York (formerly at University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
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
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
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
Research Grants
January 01, 2022 - July 01, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
Research Grants
January 01, 2021 - August 31, 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
February 01, 2016 - July 31, 2017
Evaluation of Affordable Care Act Policies to Encourage Accurate Prices for Medicare Services
Miriam Laugesen, Columbia University
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
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
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
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
January 01, 2017 - December 31, 2018
Consumer Directed Health Plan Impact on Low-Value Service Utilization and Spending
Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California
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
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
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
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
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
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, 2024
Why Does the US Overinvest in Technology? The Curious Case of MRI Scanners
Zack Cooper, Yale 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, 2020 - November 30, 2020
Nothing Matters: The Zero-Price Effect in the Individual Insurance Market
Coleman D. Drake, University of Pittsburgh
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
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
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
Research Grants
January 01, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Measuring the Value of Emergency Mental Health Care
Sarah Axeen, University of Southern California
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
Research Grants
January 01, 2020 - July 31, 2022
Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Ashvin Gandhi, University of California, Los Angeles