V-BID Center Update: Cost-Sharing Deters Appropriate Care, Increases Mortality; 2021 V-BID Center Virtual Summit

This update features recent literature items, media reports, and events supporting continued momentum for multiple V-BID Center initiatives throughout February.

V-BID Interns2021-02-18T20:42:38+05:00February 18th, 2021|Center Updates, News|

V-BID Center Update: Significant Uptake of IRS Rule Expanding Pre-Deductible Coverage of Chronic Disease Services

This update features policy developments, media reports, and events supporting continued momentum for multiple V-BID Center initiatives throughout the end of January and early February 2021.

V-BID Interns2021-02-04T22:28:47+05:00February 4th, 2021|Center Updates, News|

Press Release: Significant Uptake of IRS Rule Expanding Pre-Deductible Coverage of Chronic Disease Services

The 2020 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Employer Health Benefits reported significant uptake of a 2019 federal rule that expanded the number of clinical services that may be covered before enrollees meet their plan deductibles.

V-BID Interns2021-02-04T20:52:52+05:00February 4th, 2021|News, Press Releases, Uncategorized|

V-BID Center Update: CMMI Webinar on Medicare Advantage V-BID Model January 14th; Role of V-BID in Addressing Consumers’ Drug Costs

This update features policy developments, media reports, and events supporting continued momentum for multiple V-BID Center initiatives throughout early January 2021.

V-BID Interns2021-01-20T21:46:45+05:00January 20th, 2021|Center Updates, News|

V-BID Center Update: Increasing Receipt of Second COVID-19 Vaccine Dose, V-BID’s Expanding Role in Medicare

This update features policy developments, media reports, and events supporting continued momentum for multiple V-BID Center initiatives throughout December 2020.

V-BID Interns2021-01-08T22:03:43+05:00December 25th, 2020|Center Updates, News|

Federal Transparency Rule Announced at V-BID Center; Medicare Offers COVID-19 Antibody Treatment with No Cost-Share

This update features policy developments, media reports, and events supporting continued momentum for multiple V-BID Center initiatives throughout late November and early December 2020.

V-BID Interns2021-07-29T23:32:27+05:00December 5th, 2020|Center Updates, News|

V-BID Center Hosts CMS Price Transparency Roundtable; AJMC/NPC “Bang for the Buck” Webinar Today

This update features policy developments, media reports, and events supporting continued momentum for multiple V-BID Center initiatives throughout late October and early November 2020.

V-BID Interns2020-11-11T02:53:35+05:00November 10th, 2020|Center Updates, News|

Thursday, October 29, 2020: Virtual Roundtable with CMS Administrator Seema Verma

On Thursday, October 29th, at 10:45 am EDT, the V-BID Center will host a virtual roundtable with CMS Administrator Seema Verma and invited panelists to discuss initiatives designed to improve patient-centered outcomes and lower health care expenditures as part of the movement towards value-based care.

Vbidcenter2020-10-30T22:59:29+05:00October 28th, 2020|Events, News|

V-BID Center Update: V-BID Effective in Ensuring Medication Adherence in HDHPs and Reducing Low Value Care; Growing Bipartisan Policy Support

This update features policy developments, media reports, and events supporting continued momentum for multiple V-BID Center initiatives throughout July.

V-BID Interns2020-08-05T21:28:20+05:00July 22nd, 2020|Center Updates, News|

Breaking: V-BID Included in Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Recommendations

Washington, DC — On Wednesday, the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force released a 110-page document detailing recommendations for key issues, including health care.

V-BID Interns2020-09-28T23:37:09+05:00July 10th, 2020|News, Press Releases|

V-BID Center Update: V-BID included in CMS final payment rule, COVID-19 legislation

This update features policy developments, media reports, and events supporting continued momentum for multiple V-BID Center initiatives from late April through mid-May.

V-BID Interns2020-05-20T23:49:28+05:00May 20th, 2020|Center Updates, News|

Press Release: HHS Proposed Rule Offers Support for V-BID X Health Plans

In the proposed 2021 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters rule, released on January 31, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared broad support for the inclusion of V-BID principles in marketplace health plans.

V-BID Interns2020-12-22T00:58:27+05:00May 7th, 2020|News, Press Releases|

BREAKING NEWS: New CMS Model Dramatically Reduces Insulin-Related Out-of-Pocket Costs

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a new model, Part D Senior Savings, dramatically reducing insulin-related out-of-pocket costs for 3 million Medicare beneficiaries.

V-BID Interns2020-05-08T02:23:35+05:00March 12th, 2020|News, Press Releases|

BREAKING NEWS: IRS Responds to COVID-19 by Eliminating Cost-Sharing for Screening, Testing, and Vaccination

Breaking News: On March 11, 2020 IRS issued guidance (Notice 2020-15, High Deductible Health Plans and Expenses Related to COVID-19) confirming that health plans and employers may reduce or eliminate cost-sharing for COVID-19 screening, treatment, and vaccination, including for Americans enrolled in high-deductible health plans coupled with Health Savings Accounts.

Vbidcenter2020-04-01T19:42:53+05:00March 12th, 2020|News, Press Releases|

V-BID Center Midwinter 2020 Update: Our 2019 Year In Review, HSA-HDHP Legislation & More

This update features policy developments, media reports, and events supporting continued momentum for multiple V-BID Center initiatives from mid-December, 2019 through the end of January, 2020.

V-BID Interns2020-07-28T01:06:23+05:00February 3rd, 2020|Center Updates, News|
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