Paying for Care

Health policy debates are full of competing claims and it's often hard to know who to believe. AcademyHealth's monthly guide series helps policymakers, journalists, and practitioners cut through the noise by explaining what the research actually shows, where experts disagree, and why. This series is produced by AcademyHealth as part of its commitment to evidence-informed health policy.

​For more than 25 years, AcademyHealth served as the national program office for the Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) program, an initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

This collaboration between AcademyHealth and the Donaghue Foundation supports the development of research focused on achieving high-value, equitable care that addresses the needs of health care systems, researchers, patients, and the broader community.

This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant program, managed by AcademyHealth, funds rigorous, empirical studies that evaluate or predict the potential effects of policies or policy changes intended to transform health and health care systems.