Last Update: 01/2025
The Health Care Financing Initiative fosters research and engagement between our students and faculty, legislative and policymaking leaders, and industry leaders in the areas of health care financing and public policy.The McCourt School established the Health Care Financing Initiative (HCFI) in June 2018 with the generous support of the Institute for Critical Care Foundation (ICCF).
Prepaying Your Baby’s Birth? New Healthcare Provider Trend Highlights Rising Costs and Financial Impacts for Patients, Families
January 10th, 2025
A recent article by KFF Health News highlighted a growing trend in maternity care: Pregnant individuals are being asked to prepay thousands of dollars for prenatal and delivery services before their due dates.…
After the Pandemic, Nurses and Other Healthcare Workers Are Demanding More … And Getting It
December 4th, 2024
From 2022 to late 2024, thousands of healthcare workers in nearly twenty states have walked off the job, demanding better compensation, higher staffing levels, and more responsive management.…
Societal Cost and Benefit from Safe Babies Safe Moms: Towards Measuring Social Return on Investment
December 1st, 2024
This study combines findings from several prior research reports prepared during the SBSM research program. We have extended our empirical work on cost-effectiveness into a nascent analysis of the potential societal return on investment in SBSM, by comparing the incremental program costs and savings immediately after delivery alongside the potential benefits from payer or societal view.…
HCFI Team Returns to the MedStar Health and Georgetown University Research & Education Symposium 2024
October 29th, 2024
Aditi, Dr. Davis, Rehman, and Yetong represented our SBSM Health Economics research at the 2024 conference. On Monday, April 29, 2024, the Safe Babies & Safe Moms (SBSM) team showcased…
Continuity between Prenatal and Labor and Delivery Care Serving a High-Risk Urban Population
October 30th, 2023
This brief study measures continuity between prenatal and delivery care in Safe Babies Safe Moms’ (SBSM) population and explores the association of that continuity to patient demographics and health history, birth outcomes, and delivery costs in SBSM’s inaugural year.…
HCFI joins MedStar’s Safe Babies Safe Moms Team to Showcase Our Health Economics Research
October 28th, 2023
In May 2023, our team, lead by Dr. Davis and Dr. DeLeire, presented a poster with early research observations at the the MedStar Health-Georgetown University Research and Education…
Looking Back To Move Forward
September 19th, 2022
A compilation of all HCFI’s publications featured in the COVID-19 Post Acute collection, organized around four overarching themes. …
COVID-19 Continues to Intensify Long-Standing Nursing and Staffing Shortages (Long-Term Care Workforce 2022)
April 25th, 2022
Providers, as well as state and federal policy makers are grappling with rapid innovations to restore adequate staff during the pandemic and beyond.…
