March 20th 2024
For more than a decade, certain high-value preventive care services have been covered at no cost to patients under the Affordable Care Act, but a current legal challenge has the coverage at risk.
VBID Can Be a Tool to Address Health Care Affordability Concerns of Consumers
March 17th 2021A panel of experts provided consumer insights into value-based insurance design (VBID) and how the COVID-19 pandemic may have changed consumer behaviors in a way that VBID may be able to address as the country emerges from the pandemic.
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Imagining a World Without Low-Value Services: Progress, Barriers, and the Path Forward
March 17th 2021Clinician-, 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.
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20 Years of VBID Policy Achievements and How to Continue Progress
March 14th 2021A panel of policy experts, including employees of the previous 2 administrations and a former lobbyist for health plans, discusses achievements of value-based insurance design and how to take the concept to the next level.
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Panel: COVID-19 Presents Opportunity to Reform Health Care Payment, Delivery
February 17th 2021During a 2021 AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference session, members of The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform discussed policy recommendations aimed at preparing the United States for future pandemics and addressing care inequities brought to light by the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis.
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Contributor: A Practical Path Forward to More Patient-Centered Value Assessment
February 16th 2021To ensure that value assessment accounts for patient needs, we need a better understanding of the outcomes that are most important to patients, write authors from COVIA Health Solutions and the University of Washington School of Pharmacy.
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Uncertainty From COVID-19 Delays Progress on the Road to Value-Based Cancer Care
October 30th 2020COVID-19 has created a significant distraction from normal practice operations. The uncertainty that comes along with the pandemic is a huge worry, and can distract from practice transformation.
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Whole-Person Health Care: Integrating Mental and Behavioral Health Into Primary Care
October 16th 2020Panelists highlight approaches for integrating behavioral and physical health into a whole-patient model and discuss emerging opportunities for the integration of behavioral mental health in value-based care.
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The second of a 5-part webinar series examining value assessment in the COVID-19 era hosted by ISPOR and the Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI) will explore whether the methods on which health economists have relied are up to the task or in need of improvement for the pandemic era.
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