Last Update: 05/2025

Our Mission


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 economics, 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.

What’s New

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Advancing Maternal and Infant Health Research Through Data Interoperability

July 3rd, 2025

This blog highlights our work on integrating maternal and neonatal data systems as part of the Safe Babies Safe Moms (SBSM) initiative. By linking clinical, billing, and appointment records under a unified mother-baby dataset, we demonstrate how internal interoperability can lay the groundwork for more effective care models and data-driven maternal health policy……

SMBM ROI

Return on Investment from Safe Babies Safe Moms; Evidence from the 2023 Cohort

June 27th, 2025

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.…

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.…

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. …