Deadline: 18 July 2025
The National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation is accepting applications for its Research Grant to support innovative, independent, investigator-initiated research that has the potential to inform managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders to improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.
All NIHCM-funded research should advance the evidence base on rising health care costs and affordability, through improved health care management, financing, delivery and organization.
Topic Areas
- They are currently requesting Letters of Inquiry for projects in the following topic areas:
- Drug pricing and affordability: Research that examines the factors influencing drug pricing, patents, pricing transparency, and policy interventions aimed at improving access to affordable medications. They are especially interested in work on GLP-1 agonists and related medications.
- Provider consolidation & market power: Research that evaluates the effects of health care competition and consolidation on costs, price variation, quality of care, and patient access.
- Health care delivery: Research that assesses the adoption, challenges, and outcomes of care delivery models—including value-based care and hybrid care models—in reducing health care costs, while also improving health care efficiency, quality, and patient outcomes. They are especially interested in research on how prior authorization protocols can optimize for both affordable coverage and high-quality care.
- Chronic disease management: Research that addresses the challenges and opportunities in managing chronic diseases and their associated costs, while improving patient outcomes and health care efficiencies.
- Artificial Intelligence: Research that explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve health care delivery, efficiency, patient outcomes, and/or the potential challenges that AI introduces in terms of costs, quality of care or security. They are especially interested in research on how the use of AI with electronic health records may be increasing coding intensity in the commercially insured population.
Funding Information
- NIHCM is making a total of $500,000 available this cycle, with most individual grants awarded in the $50,000 – $60,000 range.
Eligibility Criteria
- They welcome applications from individual researchers as well as from all types of organizations and institutions, including both nonprofit and for-profit entities. Multiple organizations may apply jointly, but one must be named as the principal organization, and others will have a subcontract relationship with that organization. There is no limit on the number of project ideas that may be submitted by a given researcher, organization, or academic department.
For more information, visit NIHCM.
