Harvard Business Review Insight Center: Smarter Consumer Cost Sharing Using Clinical Nuance November 18, 2013 The Harvard Business Review Insight Center features a collaborative blog post on smarter "clinically nuanced" consumer cost-sharing by Drs. Mark [...]
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 13, 2013 In a recent New York Times article, Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan articulates strong support for clinically nuanced value-based insurance design (V-BID) programs. Mullainathan highlights the well-documented problem of cost-related medication non-adherence and recommends [...]
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 [...]
June 25, 2013 Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID), a concept developed and researched by the V-BID Center at the University of Michigan, has garnered recent attention from high profile state health policy makers. In a U.S. House of [...]
April 17, 2013 A recent report published by the Partnership for Sustainable Health Care and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation singled out the adoption of Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID) as one of five [...]
U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health V-BID Center director A. Mark Fendrick testified at a hearing on Medicare benefit design before the U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health Dr. Fendrick's testimony [...]
February 7, 2013 According to two recently published reports, the successful implementation of value-based insurance design (V-BID) in state exchanges is contingent on transparency and consumer education efforts. As officials from California and other states [...]
November 2012, Ann Arbor, MI In their plan for health and fiscal policy, the National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC) refers to value-based insurance design (V-BID) as a "game-changer", putting the concept of value in insurance [...]
Evidence accumulates for Value-Based Insurance Design: Adherence improvements enhanced by plan characteristics February 20, 2012 The basic premise of Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID) is to align consumer incentives with value by reducing barriers to high-value [...]
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 [...]
