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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Self-insured employers face legal challenges in adopting value-based models, including ERISA fiduciary duties, HIPAA restrictions, and antitrust concerns. Standardized data definitions and performance ...

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. The model, known as value-based insurance design, ...

The degree to which novel value elements such as insurance value impact estimated treatment value for rare, severe genetic diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy is unclear. Objectives: To ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Innovaccer Inc., a leading healthcare AI and data company, today announced a strategic partnership with The Company for Cooperative Insurance (Tawuniya), one of ...