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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. In the U.S. patient out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs are ...

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.

After years of efforts to reduce low-value care, panelists at the 2024 Value-Based Insurance Design Summit proposed a new strategy: drawing a line in the sand that payers will not be on the hook for ...

Michael Chernew ([email protected]) is a professor of health care policy at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. Allison Rosen is an assistant professor in the Division of General Medicine at ...