The shift toward value-based care may be inevitable, but without equitable rules, it risks creating new inefficiencies, Nikhil Shetty, MD, said. Dr. Shetty, COO of Midwest Interventional Spine ...

As employers push patients to lower-cost sites of care and regulators nudge providers toward downside risk, value-based care ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...