From: Lloyd-Puryear, Michele (NIH/OD) [V] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 8:43 AM
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I wanted to share with you three announcements made this week: two funding opportunities and one new tool for small businesses like physician practices.
1. Health Care Innovation Challenge -- $1 Billion in Grants
Do you have a quickly deployable idea to improve health care and decrease cost? The White House just announced a new jobs program this week that may provide the funding you need to make it happen: "The Health Care Innovation Challenge will award up $1 billion in grants to applicants who will implement the most compelling new ideas to deliver better health, improved care and lower costs to people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP, particularly those with the highest health care needs." The grants will range from $1,000,000 to $30,000,000 for a three-year period.
-Read more: http://act.drsforamerica.org/go/358?akid=784.14507.5FpCSq&t=3
-Deadline for letter of intent: December 19
2. National Health Service Corps Student to Service Loan Repayment Program
Are you a medical student in your final year of medical school? Are you going into Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Pediatrics, OB/GYN, or Geriatrics? Are you interested in practicing in an underserved neighborhood or region? In addition to the main National Health Service Corps program (loan repayments starting as an attending), there is a new pilot program to start loan repayments during residency ($30,000 per year up to $120,000) in exchange for service after residency. Payments would start by June 1, 2012.
-Learn how to apply: http://act.drsforamerica.org/go/359?akid=784.14507.5FpCSq&t=6
-Application Deadline: November 15 - December 15
3. New tool for small businesses to compare health plans
Are you in private practice? Do you want an easy way to find out what insurance options you have for you and your clinic staff? This tool for individuals now has an expanded database for small businesses. For example, it took 30 seconds to learn that in zip code 48154 in Michigan, there are 53 health insurance options for a small business with 10 employees.
-Look for options: http://act.drsforamerica.org/go/361?akid=784.14507.5FpCSq&t=9
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Michele Lloyd-Puryear
Senior Medical and Scientific Advisor
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD),
National Institutes of Health, DHHS
6100 Executive Blvd., 2B-03
Bethesda, MD 20892.
Phone: 301-496-1795
Fax: 301-480-9655
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