The National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation is seeking applications for Trade Journalism Award.
Donor Name: National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 01/30/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The NIHCM Foundation Trade Journalism Award recognizes excellence in reporting for specialty audiences that can help health plans, policymakers, health care delivery, health care consumers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability, accessibility, and quality of US health care.
Prize
A $15,000 prize will be presented to the Trade Journalism Award winner.
Eligibility Criteria
- Articles or stories must originally have been published during the calendar year 2025.
- Entry can be either an individual story or a series. Stories must be advertised and disseminated as an official series in order to be submitted as one entry.
- Entries will be accepted from publications written for a specialty audience.
- All entries should include a focus on health care affordability, including increasing knowledge of the drivers and impacts of rising health care costs, or identifying solutions to improve health care access and quality. Entries should produce new insights that are relevant to health plans, policymakers, health care delivery, and/or related stakeholders.
- All entries should focus on health care in the United States.
Selection Criteria
- Quality, originality, and creativity of reporting.
- Entry produces new insights or impact that can inform efforts to improve health care affordability, including by increasing knowledge of the drivers and impacts of rising health care costs, or identifying solutions to improve health care access and quality.
- Entries should produce new insights that are relevant to health plans, policymakers, health care delivery, and/or related stakeholders.
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