NIHCM Foundation: Trade Journalism Award Grant

The NIHCM Foundation's Trade Journalism Award honors outstanding reporting aimed at specialty audiences, focusing on enhancing the affordability, accessibility, and quality of healthcare in the U.S. A $15,000 prize will be awarded to the winner. Entries, which can be individual stories or series published in 2025, must provide valuable insights relevant to health plans, policymakers, and stakeholders, addressing the critical issues of rising healthcare costs and access.

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.
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.

Eligibility

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.Limit three entries per entrant.Individuals may be listed on additional applications as a co-author or co-contributor.The entrant is the person completing the form via the online entry system. An entrant can be an awards coordinator, an administrative assistant, or a leading author.An individual can submit three entries for Investigative & General and three entries for Trade.The two categories are considered two separate awards, as long as they are not the same applications.