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 (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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cake & Arrow, an experience design and product innovation agency focused exclusively on insurance, today announced the release of Tackling Friction in Insurance ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...