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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
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 [...]
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.
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.
