Rajender Agarwal ([email protected]) is director of the Center for Health Reform, in Southlake, Texas. At the time this work was completed, he was a Business of Medicine MBA candidate at Indiana ...

Value-based insurance design (VBID), conceived by a multi-disciplinary faculty team at the university of Michigan, works on the premise of aligning patients' out-of-pocket costs with the value of ...

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CMS announced the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model on Tuesday, which aims to reduce the utilization of avoidable high-cost care while improving Medicare beneficiaries’ health.

Certain elements of value-based insurance design plans may lead to higher medication adherence, according to a study published in Health Affairs. Researchers analyzed 76 VBID plans and their effect on ...

Hello and welcome to Health Affairs This Week. I am your host, Jeff Byers. We're recording on 02/06/2025. Before we begin, I wanted to remind listeners that we released a new health policy brief last ...

What's next when policy can't fix what policy created? Last December, CMS announced that it would terminate the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (MA VBID) model due to “substantial and ...

Although the gap between low and high value has been established in many areas, insurance design has yet to adapt, according to a panel at the 20th annual Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Summit.

Value-based benefit design has gained currency in the last few years as some large employers move away from a one-size-fits-all approach to workers' cost-sharing and toward a more "clinically nuanced" ...

NEW YORK, Dec 19 (Reuters) - A new U.S. health insurance model uses financial sticks and carrots to steer patients toward the most beneficial care. Sign up here. The model, known as value-based ...