Donaghue Foundation – 2022 Greater Value Program

Applications are invited for projects in support of promising approaches to create a higher value healthcare system. Proposed research should be focused on developing actionable solutions to one or more of the symptoms of low-value health care such as high and rising costs; unwarranted variation in prices; racial and ethnic disparities in access, prices, and outcomes; unaffordable cost of care burden on patients and families; unacceptable variation in quality; and lack of transparency in both price and outcomes.

Eligible approaches include testing models of care, coverage, or system change that seek to improve value by addressing one or more of the symptoms of low value; reducing routine treatments, tests, and screenings for patients for whom the potential harms (including financial harm) outweigh potential benefits; providing tools to help consumers make decisions about their healthcare based on value, including the cost of care to patients (in addition to other patient-centered factors); promoting conversations between patients and their clinicians and care teams about preferences and trade-offs related to alternative treatment options and/or out of pocket cost burden to patients and families; and/or testing interventions geared to reducing racial and ethnic disparities through the provision of higher value healthcare.

Eligible applicants must partner with an organization that delivers healthcare services or be a researcher based in a research unit embedded in a healthcare organization to receive an award. The applicant organization must be a 501(c)(3) research institution.

Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application by June 16, 2022.