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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

Value-based care goes much further than managing cash flow differently. As healthcare increasingly shifts toward value-based care (VBC), CFOs are facing both challenges and opportunities. Value-based ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Last year, researchers looked at the directories of the nation’s five largest health plans and found that four out of five entries were inaccurate. This is more than a minor inconvenience. It’s a ...