Welcome to the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation
The NIHCM Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the effectiveness, efficiency and quality of America's health care system.
The Foundation conducts research, policy analysis and educational activities on a range of health care issues. It fosters dialogue between the private health care industry and government to find workable solutions to health system problems.
The Foundation gives awards each year for excellence in health care research and journalism. It also serves as a clearinghouse for information on health care issues.
April 2013
Medicaid Expansion: What's at Stake for 2014 and Beyond?
The Arkansas legislature’s approval of a private alternative to the ACA Medicaid expansion responds to the concern many states have about growing a public program...
March 2013
An Insider's View of National Strategies to Control the Obesity Epidemic
Responses to New York City’s ban on large sugary drinks illustrate how easily policies aimed at reversing our obesity epidemic can become mired in controversy. But...
February 2013
Bringing the Blue Zones® to Iowa–Collaborating to Improve Statewide Health
Iowa is on a mission to become the healthiest state in the nation by 2016, and it has a plan. One of the centerpieces of that plan is the Blue Zones Project, a...
January 2013
Spending for Private Health Insurance in the United States
The total cost of health care for a typical family with employer-sponsored coverage has more than doubled in the past decade to nearly $21,000 per year, outpacing...
November 2012
Fostering Healthy Families Through Stable Housing—The Role of the Health Care System
The 1 in 45 children who are homeless in the U.S. are sick four times as often as their peers and are more likely to suffer from acute and chronic illness. Although the...
October 2012
The Challenges of Pricing Health Insurance for the 2014 Exchanges
The ACA has introduced sweeping market changes that bring new uncertainty to the task of developing premiums for products to be offered in the health insurance...