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 [...]
