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 ...

The University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, or LDI, recently announced two new grant awards.

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 ...

Value-based care models demonstrate success in aligning stakeholders with cost and quality goals, achieving significant savings. Employer-sponsored insurance market faces challenges due to misaligned ...

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 ...

Since 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) has been guided by a renewed vision to build “a health system that ...

Value-based care (VBC), driven by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has emerged as a cornerstone for redefining the customer journey—creating a profound shift in the insurance ...

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 ...

Self-insured employers face legal challenges in adopting value-based models, including ERISA fiduciary duties, HIPAA restrictions, and antitrust concerns. Standardized data definitions and performance ...

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 ...

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.