Deadline: 28 March 2025
The National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation Local Media Award recognizes excellence in local written reporting that can help managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.
Prize Information
- A $15,000 prize will be presented to the winner.
Eligibility Criteria
- Entries must originally have been published during the calendar year 2024.
- All entries must be exclusively focused on a local market. National stories will not be accepted in this category.
- Entries will be accepted from newspapers, magazines, websites, and nonprofit news organizations.
- All entries must address some aspect of health care management, financing, delivery and organization, affordability, and/or rising health care costs; with an eye toward how the work can help managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.
- All entries should focus on health care in the United States.
Selection Criteria
- Quality reporting on a local market.
- Entry produces impact or insights that may improve health care management, are relevant to the private sector, generate new evidence on health care affordability and how rising health care prices affect quality and access, and/or inform health care policy along these dimensions.
- The best and most impactful entries can help managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.
For more information, visit NIHCM.
