Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute

What Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute does

The Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute is a nonprofit research organization founded in 2012 and affiliated with the American College of Radiology, headquartered at 1892 Preston White Drive in Reston, Virginia. Its mission is to establish foundational evidence for health policy and radiology practice that promotes effective and efficient use of healthcare resources and improves patient care. The institute is recognized as one of the nation's leading medical imaging socioeconomic research organizations.

The institute's core product is a portfolio of proprietary data tools and analytical instruments built on large-scale Medicare and Medicaid claims datasets, including the Neiman Almanac 2.0 (state-level imaging cost and utilization), NITOS (imaging procedure classification), NICI (imaging comorbidity index), ICE-T (inpatient cost evaluation and bundled payment modeling), the Breast Screening Bundle Tool, the Medicare Beneficiary Enrollment Numbers tool, and Cancer Disparity Maps. Research output is delivered through peer-reviewed publications in journals such as JACR, American Journal of Roentgenology, Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, JVIR, and American Journal of Neuroradiology; policy briefs; webinars; and an AIRP Healthcare Delivery & Policy Research Course. Recent studies have covered radiology workforce attrition, practice turnover, imaging interpretation turnaround times, non-physician practitioner imaging interpretation, AI adoption for stroke detection under Medicare's New Technology Add-On Payment, and AI concordance for pulmonary embolism detection.

HPI is not a commercial enterprise: data tools and research outputs are provided free for academic and public use, and the institute's principal revenue mechanism is grant funding, including its own Neiman Grants Program (up to $75,000 per award) and Neiman Fellowship, supplemented by American College of Radiology institutional support and third-party restricted grants such as American Heart Association funding. Customer segments are radiology professionals and practices, healthcare policy makers, academic medical centers (notably via the embedded PRIME Center at Northwell Health), and health services researchers. The institute is governed by an Executive Director (Elizabeth Rula, PhD) and supported by a Research Director (Eric Christensen, PhD), a Principal Research Scientist (Casey Pelzl, MPH), and Affiliate Senior Research Fellows at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

Name

Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute

Legal name

Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute

Website

https://neimanhpi.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute is a nonprofit research organization affiliated with the American College of Radiology that produces health policy and socioeconomic evidence on medical imaging for radiology professionals, healthcare policy makers, academic medical centers, and health services researchers.

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Product category

Health Policy Research

NAICS

Scientific Research and Development Services (5417)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

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Disease-Specific Research & Support (e.g., Cancer, Diabetes, ALS) (BPAGACAA)

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Health Data, Vital Statistics & Population Health Informatics (BPAIAJAM)

Keywords

• Health policy research
• Radiology research
• Medical imaging data
• Health services research
• Socioeconomic research

Headquarters

HQ city

Reston

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, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Research Grants and Fellowships: The institute offers grant programs funding external researchers to conduct health policy and radiology research aligned with institute priorities. Grants of up to $75,000 are available for qualifying research projects.
2. Affiliation with American College of Radiology: The institute is affiliated with the American College of Radiology and appears to receive organizational support from ACR.

Go-to-market motion1 record

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Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute is a nonprofit research organization that conducts socioeconomic and health policy research on medical imaging and radiology practice. It produces proprietary data tools (Neiman Almanac, ICE-T, NITOS, NICI, Cancer Disparity Maps), publishes peer-reviewed research and policy briefs, and funds external research through grants and fellowships to inform evidence-based healthcare policy.

Product overview

The Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute is a medical imaging socioeconomic research organization that operates as a portfolio of data tools and research programs. The core offering includes the Neiman Almanac 2.0, which provides state-level imaging cost and utilization data, along with specialized analytical tools: ICE-T (Inpatient Cost Evaluation Tool) for bundled payment analysis, the Breast Screening Bundle Tool, NITOS (Neiman Imaging Types of Service) for procedure coding classification, NICI (Neiman Imaging Comorbidity Index) for risk adjustment, and tools for tracking Medicaid/Medicare reimbursement disparities, academic radiology practices, and Medicare beneficiary enrollment. The portfolio also includes Cancer Disparity Maps for geographic analysis. Supporting these tools are the Neiman Institute Grants Program (up to $75,000 per grant) and Fellowship program for researchers, along with the AIRP Healthcare Delivery & Policy Research Course. The institute conducts research on AI applications in medical imaging including stroke detection and pulmonary embolism detection algorithms.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PRIME Center: A research center within HPI focused on population health, imaging outcomes, and value-based care.

Products and services

• Neiman Almanac 2.0 Comprehensive data resource providing state-level imaging cost and utilization trends, heat maps, and U.S. imaging cost analysis for researchers and policy makers.
• Medicaid vs. Medicare Reimbursement by State Interactive heat maps comparing Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement rates for 10 common radiological procedures across U.S. states.
• Neiman Inpatient Cost Evaluation Tool (ICE-T) Tool for evaluating inpatient costs and bundled payment models for radiology practices, helping determine which DRGs should be bundled.
• Breast Screening Bundle Tool Tool for analyzing costs and services related to breast cancer screening, including editing national MPFS prices and service numbers.
• Neiman Imaging Types of Service (NITOS) Classification system for assigning Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes to imaging service categories for research and policy analysis.
• Identification of Academic Radiology Practices Research tool for identifying and analyzing academic radiology practices in the United States.
• Medicare Beneficiary Enrollment Numbers: A Research Tool Research dataset tracking Medicare beneficiary enrollment numbers for health services research.
• The Neiman Imaging Comorbidity Index (NICI) Comorbidity index for risk adjustment in imaging-related health services research.
• Cancer Disparity Maps Interactive maps showing geographic disparities in cancer diagnosis, treatment access, and outcomes across U.S. regions.
• Neiman Institute Grants Program Grants program offering up to $75,000 to fund research on health policy and radiology practice, with priority for emerging technologies and their impact on radiology.
• Neiman Fellowship Fellowship program supporting researchers in health policy and radiology health services research.
• Healthcare Delivery & Policy Research Course (AIRP CER) Educational course for researchers focused on healthcare delivery and health policy research methodologies in radiology.

Quantifiable outcome

• Patients in high heat vulnerability areas are 40% more likely to have severe stroke
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Northwell HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with Northwell Health on research including studies on AI for stroke detection and heat vulnerability linked to stroke severity. Northwell, the largest health system in New York state, serves as the home for HPI's PRIME (Population, Registry, and Health Policy Research) research center. Researchers from both organizations co-author studies published in peer-reviewed journals.
• American College of Radiology (ACR)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe institute is affiliated with the American College of Radiology. ACR oversight provides institutional support and connection to the radiology professional community. The institute's research is described as informing ACR policy positions and the college's work in radiology practice and policy.
• ACR Pediatric Imaging Research (PIR) CommitteecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with the ACR Pediatric Imaging Research Committee on studies examining differences in imaging use among children and radiation exposure safety. The study analyzed pediatric Medicaid data to compare imaging practices at children's versus non-children's hospitals.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Urban Institute: Urban Institute's Health Policy Center produces evidence on healthcare access, cost, and disparities using administrative and survey data, structurally comparable to Neiman's work on imaging utilization, cost, and disparities.
• Commonwealth Fund: Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation producing health-policy research and data tools (e.g., health system scorecards) targeting policy makers, comparable to Neiman's role as a specialty-focused evidence nonprofit.
• RAND Corporation: RAND Health is a major health-services and health-policy research operation that conducts claim-based analyses, workforce studies, and policy evaluations, comparable in methodology and nonprofit orientation to Neiman's Medicare claims and workforce research.
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER): NBER's health economics program conducts large-scale claims and labor-market analyses published as working papers and journal articles, closely mirroring Neiman's use of Medicare claims to study radiology workforce and payment-policy questions.
• Mathematica Policy Research: Mathematica conducts policy-relevant research and program evaluation for federal agencies and foundations, including payment-model and Medicare analyses that overlap with Neiman's payment-policy and bundled-care research.
• Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF): KFF is a nonprofit health-policy research organization publishing evidence and data tools (e.g., KFF data dashboards) for policymakers, mirroring Neiman's model of supplying proprietary data resources and policy briefs to inform healthcare decision-making.
• AcademyHealth: AcademyHealth is the leading professional organization for health services and health policy research, convening researchers and producing studies on delivery, payment, and workforce—directly overlapping Neiman's research domain and audience.
• RTI International: RTI International is a nonprofit research institute that conducts scientific and health-services research for government and foundation clients, comparable in mission and funding model to Neiman's grant-funded research operation.

Broad incumbents

• American Medical Association (AMA): AMA operates as a professional medical society with a research arm producing policy studies and data tools (e.g., practice-pattern surveys), the closest larger analog to the ACR–Neiman relationship between specialty society and dedicated research affiliate.
• Brookings Institution: Brookings conducts broad economic and health-policy research, including healthcare economics and AI policy, placing it in the same general think-tank and policy-evidence space as Neiman but at a much larger, multi-topic scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles5 records

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