New Alexander-Murray bipartisan bill includes V-BID
Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA) reached an agreement on Tuesday, October 17th regarding their bipartisan bill to fund key insurance subsidies. The cost-sharing reduction payments reimburse insurance companies for lowering deductibles, co-payments and other out-of-pocket costs for low-income customers. Page 11 of the draft bill language includes a section on value-based insurance designs:
“(iii) waivers encouraging or requiring health plans in such State to deploy value-based insurance designs which structure enrollee cost-sharing and other health plan design elements to encourage enrollees to consume high-value clinical services;”
Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID) is a potential solution built on the principle of lowering or removing financial barriers to essential, high-value clinical services and providers. V-BID plans align patients’ out-of-pocket costs, such as copayments and deductibles, with the value of services. These innovative programs are designed with the tenets of clinical nuance in mind. Clinical nuance recognizes that 1) medical services differ in the amount of health produced, and 2) the clinical benefit derived from a specific service depends on the consumer using it, as well as when, where, and by whom it is provided.
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