Opportunity Information: Apply for CMS 2L2 23 001
The Health Equity Data Access Program (HEDAP) is a grant opportunity from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, designed to expand researcher access to CMS restricted-use data for applied health equity research. The core purpose is practical: CMS is funding access to its Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) so that researchers can use Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP data to identify, document, measure, and evaluate health disparities and then translate those findings into actionable insights for CMS and its partners. Rather than supporting broad institutional capacity-building in the abstract, HEDAP is tied to specific research projects that demonstrate creative and innovative ways of using CMS data to better understand inequities in healthcare access, quality, outcomes, and utilization.
A central feature of HEDAP is that it funds three VRDC "seats," where a seat means one individual user account with VRDC access. In practice, this means CMS is supporting three researchers (or three named users associated with funded projects) with the secure data environment access needed to work with restricted CMS datasets. Seat access is supported for up to 36 months per award, contingent on the availability of funds, which signals that CMS expects projects to have enough runway to complete rigorous analyses and produce deliverables over a multi-year period rather than being limited to a short pilot.
The research focus is explicitly centered on minority health and underserved populations. Projects are expected to address health services research questions affecting groups such as racial and ethnic minority populations, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ community, individuals with limited English proficiency, rural residents, and people adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality. CMS also encourages proposals that examine intersectionality, meaning studies that recognize people can belong to multiple groups at the same time and may experience overlapping disadvantages (and strengths). For example, a project might explore how outcomes differ for rural beneficiaries who are also members of a racial or ethnic minority group, or for Medicaid enrollees with disabilities who also face language barriers.
HEDAP is positioned as an applied program with a clear end user: CMS and operational partners such as Quality Improvement Organizations and Hospital Engagement Networks, along with other stakeholders involved in improving care. The expected value of the research is not only academic publication, but actionable information about specific enrollee subgroups, patterns of disparity, and opportunities for intervention. In other words, the program is meant to help CMS better target strategies to reduce and ultimately eliminate disparities in underserved populations by grounding decisions in robust analysis of CMS administrative data.
From an eligibility and administrative standpoint, the opportunity is a discretionary grant in the health category (CFDA 93.695). Eligible applicants are limited to public and state-controlled institutions of higher education and private institutions of higher education, which indicates the program is geared toward academic researchers working through universities or similar higher-education entities. The funding opportunity number is CMS-2L2-23-001, it was created on June 29, 2023, and the original application closing date was August 15, 2023. CMS anticipated making three awards, aligning with the three funded VRDC seats, and the listed award ceiling is $90,000, suggesting a relatively focused budget intended to support the access and research activity associated with each seat rather than large-scale program implementation.
Overall, HEDAP can be understood as a targeted mechanism for getting more equity-focused researchers into the CMS secure data ecosystem, building their capacity to use CMS data effectively over time, and producing analysis that CMS can use to identify which populations are experiencing inequities, how those inequities show up in claims and enrollment patterns, and where policy or quality improvement efforts might have the most impact.Apply for CMS 2L2 23 001
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Health Equity Data Access Program (HEDAP)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.695.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 29, 2023.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 15, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $90,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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