Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD

Clinician-, patient-, and research-focused initiatives are needed to reduce the delivery of low-value care services that contribute to financial, clinical, and psychological harm for patients.

Allowing the appropriateness of services to play a more meaningful role in the design of physician and patient incentives may improve the value of care.

Financial incentives created under the Affordable Care Act can help promote employer wellness programs and support preventive services utilization.

Patients who enrolled in a trial to lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol spoke positively of the multifaceted intervention: pillbox monitoring and financial incentives were socially acceptable.

A retrospective claims analysis showed that synchronized refill schedules were associated with better medication adherence among Medicare Advantage patients taking multiple maintenance medications.

This article details strategies based on principles from psychology and economics that health systems may use to align with physicians.

This study extends value-based insurance design concepts in testing the impact on blood pressure control of rewards that provided negative co-payments for blood pressure medication.

This study tests the impact on blood pressure control of a reward that lowered co-payments for blood pressure medication to $0.

The ACA eliminated patient cost sharing for evidence-based preventive care, yet this policy has not resulted in substantial increases in colonoscopy and mammography utilization.