AHCPR Plans Health Care Market, Managed Care Research Centers

ROCKVILLE, Md—The Agency for Health Care Policy Research (AHCPR) plans to spend up to $11 million to fund two or three research centers to conduct studies of the health care market and managed care. The aim is to help policy makers understand, monitor, and anticipate how changes in the nation’s market-driven health care system affect costs, access to services, and quality of care. Interested researchers have until Sept. 2 , 1999, to submit letters of intent.