RWJF: Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) supports policy analysis, research, evaluation and demonstration projects that provide policy leaders timely information on health care policy and financing issues. This Call for Proposals is intended to support projects that:
Examine significant issues and interventions related to health care financing and organization and their effects on health care costs, quality and access; and
Explore or test major new ways to finance and organize health care that have the potential to improve access to more affordable and higher quality health services.
Three categories of projects will be considered for funding under this solicitation:
Policy analyses and research to design and analyze major health care financing strategies, including strategies where financing and organization are integrally related.
Evaluations of major financing strategies already in place.
Demonstrations to test new financing strategies. Support for demonstrations is limited to the data collection and analysis portions of a demonstration.
All projects must address how current public and private mechanisms for financing health care or proposed
major changes in those mechanisms will affect health care costs, access or quality.
No particular interventions or issues are prescribed. Proposals will be evaluated on their
potential to inform health care policy. We are interested in proposals to examine
the profound changes taking place in the public and private health care markets, especially the
increasing consumer role in health care decisions; the components of the delivery system, e.g., individual
providers, hospitals, the system, that make a difference in quality of care and health outcomes;
and the impacts of significant changes in health insurance benefit design.
Examples of possible projects include:
analyses of how consumers use information to make decisions and the impact of those decisions on costs, satisfaction and quality of care;
simulations of various delivery system changes; and
examination of the implications of health insurance benefit design changes for consumers, employers, health plans and providers.
Amount: In April 2005, the Foundation reauthorized this initiative for $10 million over three years.
Small grants - for projects requiring $100,000 or less and projected to take 12 months or less.
Large grants - for projects requiring more than $100,000 and/or projected to take longer than 12 months.
Deadline: Grants are awarded on a rolling basin; proposals may be submitted at any time
For further information, visit:
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/program/cfp.jsp?ID=19274
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