SHARE Announces New Grant Awards

The State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) initiative, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has awarded ten new grants to fund research that addresses health reform issues and the early impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on coverage, health care utilization, and affordability.  

Through this new round of grants, SHARE-funded research will help fill the informational gap that state officials face as they work to implement many of the most significant elements of the ACA in ways that will best meet the unique health care needs of their residents. SHARE will work with the funded projects to produce and disseminate timely, informative, user-friendly findings for state and federal policy-makers and agencies as well as leading researchers.

This is SHARE's fourth round of grants since the program began in 2006 with the goal of supporting rigorous research on health reform issues at a state level. The new SHARE grants, which range in duration from 12 to 18 months and in funding up to $150,000, include the following projects:

• Coverage, Access and Health Effects of the ACA Medicaid Expansion
  Institution: RAND Corporation
  Principal Investigator: Michael Dworsky

• Early Evidence on Employment Responses to the Affordable Care Act
  Institution: Indiana University
  Principal Investigator: Anne B. Royalty

• The Effect of the ACA Medicaid Expansion on Safety Net Hospital Utilization
  Institution: Virginia Commonwealth University
  Principal Investigator: Peter Cunningham

• The Effect of Affordable Care Act Reforms on Specialty Drug Coverage:  A State-by-State Comparison
  Institution: RAND Corporation
  Principal Investigator:Erin Taylor

• The Effect of Public Health Insurance on the Hospital Industry
  Institution: Columbia University
  Principal Investigator: Tal Gross

• Geographic Variation in ACA-Related Media Messages and Health Insurance Enrollment
  Institution: University of Minnesota
  Principal Investigator: Sarah Gollust

• Making ACA Coverage a Reality – A National Examination of Provider Network Monitoring Practices by States and Health Plans
  Institution: Health Management Associates
  Principal Investigator: Karen Brodsky

• Pent-Up Health Care Demand after the ACA: Does it Exist and Will it Go Away?
  Institution: Medica Research Institute
  Principal Investigator: Angela Fertig

• Trends in California Physicians’ Participation in Medicaid 
  Institution: University of California, San Francisco
  Principal Investigator: Andrew Bindman

• Understanding Consumer Choice Dynamics in the ACA State Marketplaces 
  Institution: Harvard School of Public Health
  Principal Investigator: Anna Sinaiko

To learn about findings and impacts of previously funded SHARE projects, access the 2013 SHARE Program Report. 

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