Healthcare leaders are preparing for the shift from fee-for-service to value-based care, from outcomes tracking to a focus on ...

If you're leading an insurance agency, you already know healthcare is shifting, and that shift is changing how you sell. Consumers aren't just looking for coverage anymore. They want a healthcare ...

Reducing cost-sharing improves patient outcomes by enhancing access to essential care and supporting treatment adherence, especially for vulnerable populations. Michael Chernew's insights influenced ...

The Trump administration will have its own vision on value-based care, creating specific priorities for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the federal government’s primary testing ...

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.

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 ...

Behavioral health has lagged behind in the shift to value-based care, and a new paper from experts at Cigna outlines why these providers should consider making the switch along with the barriers they ...

Basing payment on clinical outcomes rather than the volume of service is increasingly common among medical practitioners, yet value-based reimbursement is less common among mental health practices.

Value-based care has been slowly gaining traction in the U.S. Some Rhode Island providers are trying to transition their practices away from fee-for-service and toward value-based care The key ...

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 ...

In the world of Medicare Advantage, a disturbing shift is occurring. What began as a noble push toward value-based care has increasingly morphed into an aggressive pursuit of value-based payment ...

The killing of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson by a gunman motivated by anger over the denial of health services by giant corporations has unleashed a flood of popular outrage on social media.