Grantees in the News

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Synthesis Project recently released a report on Consumer-Directed Health Plans (CHDP) by M. Kate Bundorf, M.B.A., M.P.H., Ph.D., Stanford University. The report cited findings from HCFO-funded researcher Dr.

A Reuters Health article featured recently published findings by HCFO researcher Ateev Mehrotra and colleagues. In the Reuters article, Mehrotra cautions that the rise in the prevalence and use of retail clinics may challenge the continuity of care desired in the medical home model.

The work of HCFO-funded researcher John Kralewski, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota, was recently featured in an article in Healthcare Informatics: “Quality of Care Investments Reduce Costs for Diabetes Patients.” Dr.

 HCFO researcher Ateev Mehrotra, M.D. was recently quoted in the LA Times article "In-store clinics look to be a remedy for healthcare law influx".

Recently published HCFO research by Jack Hadley, Ph.D., and Jim Reschovsky, Ph.D., was featured on The Incidental Economist Blog. The post, "Not on the Flat of the Curve," noted the finding of Hadley and Reschovsky that, among a sample of Medicare beneficiaries, greater medical care use was associated with health improvements.

HCFO grantee Bradley Herring, Ph.D., of Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, was recently interviewed on C-SPAN. The segment, "Americans Without Health Insurance," covered the characteristics of the uninsured population in the United States and how this population will be affected by the implementation of the ACA. 

HCFO-funded research led by Alison Galbraith, M.D., of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, was recently featured in The Washington Post. The article, "When Health Plans Go High Deductible," describes the study's finding that those enrolled in high-deductible health plans tend to delay care due to cost at a higher rate than those in traditional insurance plans. 
 

HCFO-funded work led by Alison Galbraith, M.D., of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, was featred in The Incidental Economist blog. The post, "The downside of high-deductible health plans," noted the finding of Galbraith and her colleagues that among families with chronic conditions, reporting of delayed and forgone care due to cost is higher for both adults and children in high-deductible health plans than in traditional health insurance plans.

HCFO grantee Ateev Mehrotra, M.D., M.P.H., was recently interviewed by California Healthline, a service of the California HealthCare Foundation. In the video interview, Dr. Mehrotra discusses his research on retail clinics. His work covers several facets of these facilities including patterns of growth, quality of care, and cost of care.

Now in its 8th year, the RWJF Year in Research is an opportunity for the Foundation to recognize the excellent work of their research and evaluation grantees. You can help select the most influential research articles funded by RWJF for this year. Two articles resulting from HCFO-supported work were nominated for the RWJF Year in Research: