At its April board meeting, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reauthorized the HCFO program for $10 million over three years. This is the fifth reauthorization of HCFO since its inception in 1989. The reauthorization will continue to support grantmaking, convening, technical assistance, research translation, communications, and program management to generate usable and timely information on health care policy and financing issues.
Nancy Barrand, Foundation senior program officer, commented, “This is a clear signal that the Foundation thinks it critically important to continue support of the objective research funded by HCFO. This program, which has grown to be the largest funder of investigator-initiated research on health care cost and financing issues, lends a sense of credibility to the work we do in improving health care and is integral to our mission.”
