Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Through the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) ...

When health insurers offer financial incentives through value-based insurance design (VBID), patients have greater likelihood of filling prescriptions for their chronic conditions. However, research ...

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 ...

Value-based insurance design (V-BID) is one potential strategy to promote equitable access to essential services. In contrast to a “one-size-fits-all” cost-sharing approach (for example, HDHP) that ...

TOKYO & SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE: GWRE) today announced that E.design Insurance has successfully deployed Guidewire products adopted for “&e” (pronounced as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ge Bai is professor of accounting & health policy at Johns Hopkins. The primary reason for the premium jump is the out-of-pocket ...

Ann Arbor, Mich. — Value-Based Insurance Design — a concept created at the University of Michigan and incorporated in the nation's new health care reform law — is the focus of an upcoming national ...

LaGRANGE, Ga. (WRBL) – Acceptance Insurance has developed a new software to help stop insurance fraud. The Fraud Analytical System Tracker is a software that helps Acceptance Insurance agents detect ...

Panelists at the Value-Based Insurance Design Summit discussed ways their organizations are looking to create a better benefit design to promote health equity and address known disparities. Health ...

Diabetes process and outcome measures are common quality measures in payment reform models, including Alternative Payment Models (APMs) and value-based insurance design (VBID). In this commentary we ...

Some time ago, I suggested a rule of thumb for advisors reviewing a proposal for premium financing. The rule’s simple: If you don’t see a stress-tested, clear-cut exit strategy that would allow the ...

Through the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Model, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently testing a broad array of innovations designed to reduce ...