Value-based insurance design (VBID), conceived by a multi-disciplinary faculty team at the university of Michigan, works on the premise of aligning patients' out-of-pocket costs with the value of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ge Bai is professor of accounting & health policy at Johns Hopkins. The primary reason for the premium jump is the out-of-pocket ...

Affordable health care is increasingly out of reach for people who get insurance through their employers, including most people younger than age 65. While low-income employees are among the most ...

Hello and welcome to Health Affairs This Week. I am your host, Jeff Byers. We're recording on 02/06/2025. Before we begin, I wanted to remind listeners that we released a new health policy brief last ...

Experts discussed how systemic changes need to be made to help improve preventive care access, which in turn can improve outcomes. Accountable care experts say the future of value in Medicare will ...

This retrospective analysis explored the impact of infertility health benefit design on the use of infertility medications and procedures and pregnancy outcomes. Objectives: Assisted reproductive ...

The rising cost of healthcare has become one of the biggest challenges facing employers today. For many organizations, high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) have become a necessary tradeoff — helping ...

We evaluated 129 health insurance companies by weighing key factors of top health insurance plans and scoring the following metrics. We analyzed more than 864 Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace ...