Value-based insurance design (VBID) is a strategy that reduces cost sharing for high-value services and increases consumers’ out-of-pocket spending for low-value care. VBID has increasingly been ...

This study examined the association between health insurance design features and choice of physical therapy or chiropractic care by patients with new-onset low back pain. Objectives: To determine the ...

Value-based insurance design (VBID) is a strategy that minimizes or eliminates out-of-pocket costs for high-value services in defined patient populations. Primary care is a high-value form of care and ...

Value-based insurance designs frequently lower consumers’ cost sharing to motivate healthy behavior, such as adhering to medication regimens. Few health care purchasers have followed the more ...

The US healthcare system is in crisis, with documented gaps in quality, safety, access, and affordability. Many believe the solution to unsustainable cost increases is increased patient cost-sharing.

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bind Benefits, Inc., released data that illustrates the impact better health insurance design is having on consumers and their employers. The biggest takeaway: Consumers ...

As more employers embrace the concept of value-based insurance design to improve medication adherence, Dr. A. Mark Fendrick and his colleagues at the University of Michigan Center for Value Based ...

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) ...

Years ago, Chris Boggs authored a phenomenal white paper titled “How to Read an Insurance Policy.” Everyone selling insurance, adjusting claims, and underwriting should read it, especially people new ...