Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy

What Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy does

The Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy (CHOP) is an academic research center within the University of Michigan Medical School, operationally housed inside the Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation (IHPI). It evaluates healthcare delivery and health policy using an interdisciplinary team that combines health services researchers, clinician scientists, economists, biostatisticians, implementation scientists, and qualitative experts, drawing on Medicare claims data for policy and delivery assessment. CHOP does not develop commercial products; its outputs are peer-reviewed research, policy-relevant findings (e.g., rural surgical access disparities, gender disparities in cardiac surgery quality, primary-care shortages linked to surgical complications, opioid prescribing limits' impact on post-operative pain), and trained investigators.

The center operates as a research and education platform. Its product surface consists of structured programs: SPARC (Surgical Practice AI Research Community, a monthly AI-in-surgery discussion forum), the Healthcare Administration Fellowship, and a recurring community calendar including Friday Seminars, K-Award Writing Group, Mock Study Section (co-run with IHPI), Data & Donuts, Qual & Capps, Medicare 101 Workshops, Writing for Impact, and JUMP Journal Club. Together these serve faculty and trainees at every career stage across multiple domains of health outcomes and policy research.

CHOP's business model is non-commercial. It is funded through research grants and institutional support from the University of Michigan Medical School, with no disclosed external investors, no commercial revenue streams, and no enterprise customers. The entity is a non-profit unit of a public state university; its primary "customer" is the internal community of U-M and IHPI-affiliated investigators it mentors and supports, and its distribution channels are academic publications, institutional channels, and Michigan Medicine news coverage. Strategic partnerships are limited to IHPI (core, mutual) and the VA Ann Arbor Health System (core, for veteran-population research).

Name

Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy

Legal name

Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy

Website

https://umchop.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

CHOP is an interdisciplinary academic research center within the University of Michigan Medical School that evaluates healthcare delivery and health policy through Medicare claims data analysis, serving faculty and trainees via structured mentorship, education, and AI-in-surgery community programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Health Services Research

NAICS

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (54171)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Medical Affairs, Scientific Communications & HEOR FSP (HLAGAOAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Management, Biostatistics & Statistical Programming FSP (HLAGAOAB), Market Access, Pricing & Reimbursement (Evidence Generation) FSP (HLAGAOAN)

Keywords

• Health services research
• Healthcare outcomes research
• Health policy research
• Implementation science
• Clinical outcomes analysis

Headquarters

HQ city

Ann Arbor

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding: As an academic research center, CHOP operates primarily through research grants from federal agencies, foundations, and institutional funding from the University of Michigan Medical School.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

CHOP evaluates healthcare delivery using an interdisciplinary team of health services researchers, clinician scientists, economists, biostatisticians, implementation scientists, and qualitative experts. The center conducts research on healthcare outcomes, surgical disparities, rural healthcare access, opioid prescribing, and health policy effectiveness, while supporting faculty and trainee development through structured community programming, mentorship, and educational offerings such as the Healthcare Administration Fellowship and the SPARC AI research community.

Product overview

CHOP is a research center at the University of Michigan Medical School that evaluates healthcare delivery through an interdisciplinary team including health services researchers, clinician scientists, economists, biostatisticians, implementation scientists and qualitative experts. The center operates as a unified research and education platform offering multiple programs: SPARC for AI-focused surgical research; the Healthcare Administration Fellowship for professional training; and various weekly/biweekly educational programs (Friday Seminars, K-Award Writing Group, Mock Study Section, Data & Donuts, Qual & Capps, Medicare 101 Workshops, Writing for Impact, JUMP) designed for faculty and trainees at every career stage in healthcare outcomes and policy research.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SPARC (Surgical Practice AI Research Community): Monthly sessions focusing on artificial intelligence in surgery that spark discussion among those interested in being more involved with AI.

Products and services

• Healthcare Administration Fellowship A fellowship program offered through CHOP's education division for training healthcare administration professionals. Targeted at individuals pursuing careers in healthcare administration within academic medical settings.
• SPARC (Surgical Practice AI Research Community) Monthly sessions focused on artificial intelligence in surgery that spark discussion among those interested in being more involved with AI research. Offered as part of CHOP's research programming under the Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation.

Quantifiable outcome

• Research finding: Rural patients face long drives for surgery, especially if they want to reach high quality and affordable hospitals
• +3 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation (IHPI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCHOP is housed within IHPI, giving its members access to a wide array of resources throughout the research and grant writing processes. IHPI and CHOP partner on programs including Mock Study Section for grant feedback and broader health policy research collaboration.
• VA Ann Arbor Health SystemcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCHOP researchers can conduct research at the VA Ann Arbor Health System as part of the Office of Research's research project management support, expanding the center's research scope to veteran healthcare populations.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• AcademyHealth: Professional society and research community supporting health services research, health policy, and outcomes research. Adjacent enabling organization rather than direct research competitor, but represents the broader field ecosystem CHOP participates in.

Direct peers

• Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy: Duke University's health policy and outcomes research center with a strong focus on health economics, value-based care, and policy translation. Directly comparable in academic policy research and interdisciplinary approach.
• Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center: Stanford School of Medicine center focused on clinical outcomes research, healthcare delivery redesign, and health economics. Directly comparable in mission to evaluate healthcare delivery and improve outcomes.
• Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (Penn LDI): University of Pennsylvania's hub for health economics, health services, and outcomes research. Directly comparable in mission, methodology, and academic positioning as a multi-disciplinary health economics and policy research center.
• Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice: Academic health services research and outcomes center performing health policy, clinical outcomes, and implementation science research. Directly comparable as a university-based HEOR/outcomes research hub with similar interdisciplinary methods.
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — Health Evidence and Policy: Mount Sinai's health services research and policy evaluation center. Comparable in conducting health outcomes and policy research within a major academic medical center, with similar methodological focus.
• Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research: Vanderbilt-based academic center focused on health services research, clinical outcomes, and implementation science. Directly comparable as a university-based center using similar interdisciplinary methods and Medicare claims data.

Broad incumbents

• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health — Health Policy and Management: Major academic institution conducting health services and policy research. Comparable in topical area but operates at significantly larger scale and scope than a focused research center.
• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — Department of Health Policy: Larger, broader academic institution performing health policy, health services, and outcomes research. Comparable in research area but far broader in scope and resources than CHOP's specialized focus.

Emerging players

• Brigham and Women's Hospital — Center for Surgery and Public Health: Academic center focused on surgical outcomes, health policy, and health services research with emphasis on disparities. Comparable in surgical outcomes and policy research overlap, though narrower scope than CHOP.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

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