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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

VBID has shifted from promoting high-value services to also discouraging low-value services, gaining widespread acceptance and success. The Affordable Care Act's preventive care mandate exemplifies ...

To lower health care costs, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) offer tax incentives encouraging people to trade off current consumption against future consumption. This paper tests whether consumers use ...

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 ...