Richard Kronick

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The Future of AHRQ’s Health Services Research

Michael Berkwits | The Journal of the American Medical Association | August 19, 2015

Both houses of Congress will have to resolve their differences to pass a 2016 federal budget bill, which then goes to President Obama for his signature or veto. In the meantime, AHRQ Director Richard Kronick, PhD, sat down with JAMA to talk about the agency’s work and its relationship with other federal health research entities. The following is an edited transcript of that conversation...

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Why the Threatened AHRQ Is Vital to the Hospital Industry

Meg Bryant | Healthcare DIVE | April 13, 2017

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is on the chopping block — again — and supporters are gearing up for what could be their biggest fight yet to save the little-known agency. In his fiscal year 2018 budget proposal, President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating AHRQ’s funding and folding the agency into the National Institutes of Health, which itself is facing a proposed 18% cut to its current $31.7 billion budget, and a requested $1.2 billion cut in FY 2017 funding.

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