This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage, featuring analysis and discussion from all stakeholder perspectives with the goal of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you don't keep up with the latest twists and turns in healthy policy, you probably don't know what value-based health insurance benefits are. Here is my layman's summary: If you are like most ...

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 ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan outlines how value-based care rewards quality, improves outcomes and helps control costs.

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.

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Value-based care delivers a higher quality of care and better medication prescription adherence to evidence-based medicine for Medicare Advantage patients diagnosed ...