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Value-Based Insurance Design Congressional Briefing on Medicare

February 21, 2014 - We are pleased to announce that Representatives John Dingell (D-MI) and Diane Black (R-TN) will convene a briefing on the role of V-BID in Medicare on Capitol Hill, Friday, February 28th.  Center Director, A. Mark Fendrick, MD, will present V-BID as an incremental solution to the health and economic well-being of Medicare Beneficiaries and all Americans. Understanding how the Medicare system could spend more efficiently and improve the health of beneficiaries offers an important step forward to ensure the program's solvency.  V-BID has been included in major bipartisan health reform proposals, including a prominent role in the Wyden-Isaacson 'Better Care, Lower Cost Act' introduced last month. Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID) 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 [...]

Vbidcenter2020-01-03T17:57:20+05:00February 21st, 2014|Briefings, News, Press Releases|
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V-BID Concepts included in new Medicare Legislation to Improve Care and Lower Costs

January 15, 2014 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-OR, and Johnny Isakson, R-GA, and U.S. Representatives Erik Paulsen, R-MN, and Peter Welch, D-VT, introduced legislation to improve care coordination for the millions of Medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions and to expand the use of multi-disciplinary health teams to keep patients as healthy as possible in their homes and communities. The Better Care, Lower Cost Act of 2014 (S.1932) creates the voluntary "Better Care Program" (BCP) that is open to Medicare enrollees suffering from chronic conditions.  BCPs have the ability to lower cost-sharing on services and provider visits that provide the most value for an enrollee's chronic conditions, the basic premise of Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID).  Participating plans and practices would receive newly calculated risk-adjusted, capitated payments rewarding better health outcomes for enrolled beneficiaries.  A press packet and summary of the bill are also available. The University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance [...]

Vbidcenter2020-01-03T17:58:41+05:00January 15th, 2014|News, Press Releases|
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V-BID Summit 2013: Volume to Value, Infusing Clinical Nuance into Health Care Transformation

The 2013 summit invited policymakers, state health commissioners, plan directors, and health system leaders to engage in a highly interactive format to address supply- and demand-side innovations in numerous payer settings including state health insurance exchanges, Medicaid and Medicare plans, accountable care organizations and commercial insurance plans.

Vbidcenter2020-01-30T01:10:14+05:00December 30th, 2013|V-BID Summits|
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V-BID in Action: Preventive Care Coverage in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Originally Produced:  November 2013   Updated:  July 2019 Protecting Preventive Care Coverage in the Post-ACA Era Preventive Care Coverage in the ACA: Section 2713 of the Public Health Service Act as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires that issuers offering group or individual health insurance plans must provide coverage for specified preventive services without a beneficiary copayment or a contribution toward a deductible.  This elimination of consumer cost-sharing applies only when these services are delivered by a network provider. Determining Covered Preventive Services: Congress selected three organizations to determine covered preventive services with the intent to include all segments of the population.  These organizations are the United States Preventive Services Task Force, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and the Health Resources and Services Administration.  The current list of preventive services includes a variety of counseling [...]

Vbidcenter2020-01-06T17:07:10+05:00November 1st, 2013|Briefs|
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JAMA: Reform Proposals from Seven National Policy Centers and Stakeholder Coalitions Endorse V-BID

October 23, 2013 - Over the past year, diverse policy centers and stakeholder coalitions including the Bipartisan Policy Center, Brookings Institution, The Commonwealth Fund, Kaiser Family Foundation, National Coalition on Health Care, Partnership for Sustainable Health Care, and Urban Institute presented plans for reforming the US health care system.  In a recent JAMA analysis of proposals from these respected organizations, Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID) and value-based payment reform were unanimously included as key elements for sustainable health care.  Administrative efficiency, spending limits, and Medicare reforms were also identified.  The inclusion of V-BID in each proposal demonstrates the growing multi-stakeholder and bipartisan political consensus among experts that V-BID is essential to a high-performing health care delivery system. Policy Comparisons Table, The Journal of the American Medical Association Developed by a multi-disciplinary team at the University of Michigan, the premise of Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID) is to reduce barriers to high-value health services and providers and discourage [...]

Vbidcenter2020-01-06T17:22:58+05:00October 23rd, 2013|Press Releases|
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V-BID Plays Key Role in Michigan Medicaid Expansion

August 1, 2013 LANSING, MI - Yesterday’s 20-18 Senate vote made Michigan the 25th state in the nation to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.  The new plan—Healthy Michigan—will provide coverage to an additional 470,000 residents over the next several years.  Among the provisions of the Senate version of House Bill 4714, Healthy Michigan relies on Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID) to improve access, control costs, and enhance personal responsibility. Section 105d(1)(e) permits health plans to waive copays “to promote greater access to services that prevent the progression and complications related to chronic disease.”  Health plans may also reduce enrollee contributions for meeting certain healthy behavior goals or addressing unhealthy behaviors such as alcohol and tobacco use, substance use disorders, and obesity.  Moreover, Section 105d(1)(f) of the new law explicitly calls for the creation of a clinically nuanced value-based design:  “By July 1, 2014, design and implement a [...]

Vbidcenter2020-01-06T17:43:38+05:00August 1st, 2013|News, Press Releases|
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State Innovation Models (SIM) Brief 2015 UPDATE

Originally Produced:  May 2013   Updated:  August 2015 The State Innovation Models Initiative:  Using Clinical Nuance to Align Payer and Consumer Incentives A video overview and SIM infographic accompany this issue brief. Introduction When the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Innovation announced the State Innovation Models (SIM) Initiative in 2012, state health planners and policymakers responded to the news with great enthusiasm.  The SIM program was designed with unusually broad parameters to encourage innovation in the development of new payment and delivery system models that improve health and promote efficiency.  In addition, the program requires that reform strategies be coordinated across multiple plans and payers to stimulate collaboration.  To aid in these measures, the SIM grants offer up to $60 million per state to support planning, testing, and model design. Many states receiving SIM funding are planning to develop payment reform projects that restructure incentives for health care providers. [...]

Vbidcenter2020-01-06T17:51:33+05:00May 1st, 2013|Briefs|
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V-BID Summit 2012: V-BID Integration and Employee Response Discussion

On October 30, 2012, participants from 27 states representing multiple stakeholder perspectives assembled in Ann Arbor to consider how the integration of innovative payment reform, delivery transformation, and consumer engagement initiatives encourage our dual objectives of improving quality and containing health care expenditures.

Vbidcenter2020-01-30T01:10:29+05:00December 30th, 2012|V-BID Summits|
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V-BID Symposium 2011: The State of Value-Based Insurance Design: Evidence, Policy, Implementation and Tools

The 2011 V-BID Symposium, held on November 16, 2011, attracted over 350 attendees from across the US and beyond. The event fostered collaboration among a wide range of professionals whose work includes V-BID: employers, researchers, plan designers, healthcare executives, policy leaders, government officials, benefit consultants, and health IT leaders.

Vbidcenter2020-01-30T01:10:20+05:00December 30th, 2011|V-BID Summits|
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V-BID Center Director Testifies at US Senate Committee Hearing

November 10, 2011 Washington, D.C. - The V-BID Center's Director, A. Mark Fendrick, MD, testified at the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.  The hearing was titled “Improving Quality, Lowering Costs:  The Role of Health Care Delivery System Reform.”  Dr. Fendrick’s testimony described the role of V-BID in health care delivery innovation and the emergence of clinically nuanced approaches as a means to improve health outcomes and 'bend the cost curve.'

Vbidcenter2020-01-15T18:01:59+05:00November 10th, 2011|News, Press Releases|
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V-BID Symposium 2007: Bridging the Divide Between Quality Improvement and Cost Containment

The 2007 Symposium was held on May 1, 2007. The keynote presentation was by Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD Administrator, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2004-2006) and Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies.

Vbidcenter2020-01-30T01:11:16+05:00December 30th, 2007|V-BID Summits|
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V-BID Symposium 2005: Insuring Value, Innovative Health Benefit Design to Preserve Quality and Contain Cost

The inaugural symposium was held on December 15, 2005. The keynote presentation was by Andrew Webber, President and CEO of the National Business Coalition on Health.

Vbidcenter2020-01-30T01:11:50+05:00December 30th, 2005|V-BID Summits|
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