Archive for April, 2009

Outcomes-Based Contracting Rewards Improved Health

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

This New York Times piece highlights a major step forward by Cigna and Merck:

Merck has agreed to peg what the insurer Cigna pays for the diabetes drugs Januvia and Janumet to how well Type 2 diabetes patients are able …

Blue Shield of California Quietly Explores Value-Based Designs

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

HealthLeaders InterStudy publishes a journal, California Health Plan Analysis, which regularly reviews trends in the nation’s largest state. Value-based innovations took a leading role in the spring 2009 issue:

So far, VBID has been pioneered by the largest companies that

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CHVI Leader Co-Authors Teen Pharmaceutical Study

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Jan Berger, a member of the CHVI board of directors, is co-author of the study Prevalence of Antihypertensive, Antidiabetic, and Dyslipidemic Prescription Medication Use Among Children and Adolescents published in the April edition of Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine…