History
The mission of the VA Health Economics Resource Center (HERC) is to increase the quality of VA health economics research and cost-effectiveness studies so that the nation and the nation’s veterans may get the best possible health care value from available resources. HERC was created in 1999 when the VA Health Services Research and Development Service issued a competitive request for proposals to create a resource center on health economics. An application from researchers at the VA Center for Health Care Evaluation was apprved for funding. HERC was renewed for another 5 years in 2007.
Located in Menlo Park, California, HERC helps VA researchers determine the cost of VA care, assess cost-effectiveness, and evaluate the efficiency of VA programs and providers. The center conducts two courses on health economics, coordinates monthly economic Cyber Seminars, and operates an economics consulting service for VA researchers.
Answers to many frequently asked questions are found on this web site. If you have a specific question not already addressed by the web site, please use our consulting service. Due to the great demand for health economics expertise, HERC economists do not ordinarily respond to requests for consulting assistance by becoming involved as co-investigators. HERC maintains a database of VA health economists, including key words listing their research interests.
HERC estimates the cost of all VA health care encounters, develops guidebooks to VA data, issues technical reports with analyses of economic data, and a bulletin to update customers on HERC activities. The expertise of HERC economists is developed in their participation in economic studies that are funded by VA HSR&D, the QUERI Initiative, the Cooperative Studies Program, and the National Institutes of Health.
To ensure the protection of VA information, we have restricted access to certain files (denoted by the"lock" icon). Contact HERC to download these restricted files.
- HERC's Organizational Structure Flowchart
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