Frequently Asked Questions

No. AHRQ does not have information on specific insurance companies or policies. Your State Insurance Department or Commission will have information about insurance companies in your area. AHRQ does provide data to help our sister Agency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, provide information to help compare the quality of hospitals, nursing homes, doctors, and other health care providers.

For more information, go to the Medicare Compare page.

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests may be submitted by mail, fax, or email. The request must be in writing.

For more detailed instructions on how to submit a FOIA request, go to http://www.ahrq.gov/policy/foia/instruct.html.

Agency records that are not within the public domain can be requested under FOIA. For more information, go to: http://www.ahrq.gov/policy/foia/index.html.

Information on AHRQ-funded grants is available from the agency's Project Research Online Database. You can search by Category, Request for Applications/Program Announcement (RFA/PA) number, State, principal investigator's name, and keywords. You will also be able to view the abstract. Go to: https://prod.ahrq.gov/projectsearch/.

If you want additional information pertaining to a particular funded grant, you will need to submit a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. For instructions on how to submit a FOIA request, go to: http://www.ahrq.gov/policy/foia/instruct.html.

You may request permission for translation rights to:

Lisa Nicolella
Copyright and Permissions Manager
Office of Communications
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
Email: lisa.nicolella@ahrq.hhs.gov

Please provide the following information in your request:

• Requesting organization or individual.
• Permissions contact person.
• Title or URL for each document that you wish to translate/reproduce.
• Whether it will be in print or electronic form or both.
• Publication title and/or URL where the material will appear.
• Purpose of dissemination.
• Intended audience.
• Projected date of release.

We may grant you permission by return email and will provide you with the suggested citation and notify you of any other copyright constraints should they exist.

The AHRQ logo can only be used on official communication products and websites of the agency. The logo is not in the public domain and cannot be used without specific authorization from AHRQ.

Organizations cannot display or use the logo on their publications or other communication products or web resources. This applies to grantees, contractors, and private-sector partners. Such usage would imply that the agency favors or endorses an organization, its activities, its products, its services, or its personnel, which, as a federal agency, AHRQ does not do.

We encourage other websites to link to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as a public service to their users. We appreciate being notified when a link is established as a courtesy because the link will drive traffic to our site. All external links from commercial sites to our Federal Government site should be clearly identified as such.

Our Agency cannot endorse, nor appear to endorse, commercial services or products. Links should not be displayed in any manner that would imply such an endorsement. We prefer linkages to the homepage at: https://www.ahrq.gov/.

If you want to link to specific items within the website, rather than the Homepage, please notify us and provide the relevant URLs.

As a Federal Government site, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has a restrictive external linking policy. Because we cannot endorse or appear to endorse commercial enterprises, our external linking policy precludes commercial domains. To be considered for an external link, the other site must meet one of the following three criteria:

1. It is an Agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or other Government site.
2. It is a nonprofit organization that is an official partner of our Agency on a conference or special initiative.
3. It is specifically referenced within an Agency document that is posted on our website.

The AHRQ Linking Policy is available at: https://www.ahrq.gov/policy/electronic/links/index.html.

Yes, the policy pertains to all types of applications submitted to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). This includes new and amended applications, large and small research projects, training and career development applications, conference applications, and investigator-initiated and solicited applications.