Consumers Ready, Willing to Adopt Value-Based Care Models
MELTWATER NEWS/WorldatWork
June 29, 2010
Doctors, health insurers, consumers and other constituents (including employers) of the U.S. health-care system say they are ready and willing to adopt value-based insurance designs and related payment programs, according to a study commissioned by the TriZetto Group Inc. . . . Read more »
Value-Based Insurance Design: Biting the Bullet for Better Outcomes
by Louise Kertesz | AHIP HI-WIRE
June 15, 2010
Value-Based Insurance Design's record of improving quality and lowering costs—and its potential to support key goals of health reform—were a pervasive theme at AHIP's Institute 2010. . . . Read more »
Value based health insurance. Podcast interview with SeeChange CEO Martin Watson
by David E. Williams of the Health Business Blog
April 22, 2010
In this podcast interview, CEO Martin Watson describes the company’s strategy. . . . Listen »
N.J. Health System Employs Value-Based Program
by Patty Enrado | HEALTHCARE FINANCE NEWS
April 05, 2010
EDISON, NJ – By deploying a value-based wellness program, the Solaris Health System has experienced a 17 percent cost reduction among employee participants diagnosed with diabetes. . . . Read more »
Value-based Insurance Design can improve health at no added cost
U-M, Harvard researchers show that reducing co-payment fees encourages patients to take medication without increasing total health care spending
January 21, 2010 | by Ann Arbor, UMHS Newsroom
Value-based insurance design programs — which reduce patient co-payments for highly effective treatments — can break even financially or possibly save money, according to a new study from University of Michigan, Harvard and other researchers. . . . Read more »
10 Ways to Cut Health-Care Costs Right Now
Employers and hospitals don't have to wait for Congress to address inefficiencies and waste
November 12, 2009 | by Catherine Arnst, Business Week
Seven hundred billion dollars. That's a ballpark estimate of how much money is wasted in the U.S. medical system every single year, according to a new Thomson Reuters (TRI) report. A sum equal to roughly one-third of the nation's total health-care spending is flushed away on unnecessary treatments, redundant tests, fraud, errors, and myriad other monetary sinkholes that do nothing to improve the nation's health. Cut that figure by half, and there would be more than enough money to offer top-notch care to every one of America's 46 million uninsured . . . Read more »
Tough Love, Lower Health Costs
A UnitedHealthcare plan offers incentives to employees who strictly control their diabetes
October 22, 2009 | by Arlene Weintraub, Business Week
A few years back, Dr. Robert S. Galvin was desperately searching for new ways to control medical costs at his company, General Electric (GE). Galvin is GE's chief medical officer. It's his job to keep the company's 323,000 workers healthy. But he was growing frustrated with the challenge: Too many employees with chronic illnesses such as diabetes were not taking their medications or following other prescribed treatment plans, and that led to serious—and expensive—complications. "I said, 'We need to innovate around managing costs,'" Galvin recalls . . . Read more »
Time for Value-Based Health Insurance?
September 24, 2009 | By Miranda Marquit, bizzia.com
The “debate” about health care reform continues. But of a little more interest to me is an article I read earlier today on MarketWatch. This article, from Kristen Gerencher, describes one health insurance company that is gravitating toward what is known as “value-based” health insurance. And, quite frankly, this type of health insurance looks better than what we have now . . . Read more »
VBID Textures Co-Pay vs. Co-Insurance Debate
September 01, 2009 | By George Miller, AHIP HI-WIRE
Part of HI-WIRE's weekly series of original reporting: Focus on Value-Based Benefit Design.
It was unanimous: June's National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation Health Care Research award winner was the paper, "Impact of Decreasing Copayments on Medication Adherence Within a Disease Management Environment," (Health Affairs 2008; 27(1):103-112) . . . Read more »
