Value-based insurance design (VBID) has been used by employers to encourage use of and increase access to evidence-based health services. The core mechanisms of VBID align patient cost-sharing amounts ...

A look at value-based insurance design, and how it provides a way to reduce financial barriers to care for people with chronic conditions. This article was written by Jon Christianson, PhD, Medica ...

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 ...

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The passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 has led to significant gains in health insurance coverage for many Americans. Despite this, many insured patients still ...

The burden of rising health care costs is being shifted to consumers, and 30 percent of health care costs are attributed to wasteful spending on low- or no-value services. Value-based insurance design ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study designs an optimal insurance policy form endogenously, assuming the objective of the insured is to maximize expected final wealth ...

The final report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare, published in June 2019, called for universal, single-payer, public pharmacare in Canada. Consideration of ...