Health care services have become increasingly costly, with many Americans seeing insurance premiums rise every year. On top of that, administrative fees—which cover everything from the paper in your ...

Indirect costs (Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs) are charged to externally sponsored awards, unless specifically prohibited by the funding agency. A percentage of indirect (F&A) costs ...

F&A [Facilities & Administrative] costs, also known as IER [Indirect Expense Recovery] or Indirect Costs, are real costs that are necessary to cover expenses which cannot be charged directly to a ...

Here, we describe the challenges inherent in health care markets, how our approach to addressing those challenges contributes to high administrative costs, and how modest policy-based guardrails can ...