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 ...

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 ...

Forty-nine percent of payers questioned believe that Value-Based Insurance Design is the most effective way to improve the performance of Disease Management (DM) and Wellness programs. This, according ...

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CMS is refining its Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design model for 2018. The Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design test was announced in September 2015 to measure if value-based ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is discontinuing the Medicare Advantage (MA) Value-Based Insurance Design model at the end of 2025. The CMS said the model was too costly because of ...

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 ...

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.

Previous discussions at this workshop series, such as the stakeholder perspectives described in Chapter 2, highlight the importance of consumers in reorienting health care in the United States toward ...

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 federal government's Medicare program and older adults together spend $4.4 billion a year on care that has low clinical value for patients and can even raise their risk of harm, a new study finds.