United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Health Care Financing & Economics (HCFE)

Our Projects

Current Projects 

• Comparative Effectiveness of Localized Prostate Cancer Treatments (Pilot Study) 
• Comparative Effectiveness of Treatment Options for Asymptomatic Carotid Disease (Pilot Study) 
• The Effect of Vertical Integration on the Medicare Advantage Market 
• Identifying Wait Time Measures to Predict Health Outcomes Among Veterans with Diabetes
• Comparative Effectiveness of Anti-diabetic Medication Alternatives for Veterans
• Access to Treatment and Outcomes for Veterans with Substance Use Disorder
• TBI Evaluation Instruments and Processes for Clinical Follow-up
• How Health Insurance Status Affects Persons with Disabilities 

Past Projects

• Outpatient Waiting Times, Outcomes and Cost for VA Patients with Diabetes
• The Potential for VA+Choice to Affect Veterans' Care and VA Expenditures
• Evaluation of VA Comprehensive End-of-Life Care Initiative
• Health and Economic Outcomes for Uninsured Non-Elderly Veterans
• Medicaid Enrollment, Utilization and Outcomes for VA Patients
• Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Medicare Private Fee for Service  
• How Do Medicare Health Plan Options Affect VA Utilization and Outcomes?
• Waiting for Outpatient Care and Choice in Financing 
• Implementing a Metric for VA Hospice Referrals: Phase I, Develop the Triggers
• Medications and Diabetes Morbidity in the VA Diabetes Cohort
• Modeling The Decisions of Medicare Health Plans: Will Regional Competitive Bidding Work?
• Validating MDS Data From VA Nursing Home Care Units
• Private Fee for Service Plan
• Enhancements to the AHCA long-term care microsimulation model
• Patterns of Utilization and Cost in the Community Nursing Organization Medicare Demonstration
• Overall Millennium Act Assessment
• The Cost of VA Care: Lessons of the Evaluating VA Costs Study
• VA Enrollees’ Demand for VA and Non-VA Care
• Military Sexual Trauma Among the Reserve Components of the Armed Forces
• HIV/AIDS Treatment Adherence, Health Outcomes, and Cost
• VERA Assessment
• Home Care for Fever and Neutropenia: A Randomized Trial
• Efficacy and Cost of Relaxation Response for Chronic Heart Failure