Posts Tagged ‘ diabetes ’

Value-Based Insurance Design Landscape Digest

Monday, August 24th, 2009

This important new report by A. Mark Fendrick, professor of internal medicine and health management and policy at the University of Michigan, offers an excellent overview of what VBID is and how it is being envisioned, implemented, and evaluated. Funded …

Milliman Report on Value-Based Design and Diabetes

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Kathryn Fitch and the team at Milliman have produced this excellent report on the state of the value-based healthcare movement as it relates to diabetes management.  The analysis quantifies the projected costs associated with implementing VBID for diabetes drugs. Read …

Research: Value-Based Design Boosts Diabetes Medication Adherence

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

We’re pleased to highlight this new research demonstrating the positive results of value-based benefit design. Dr. Robert Scully, a board member of the Center for Health Value Innovation, is one of the people at the forefront of this research. Here’s …

CHVI President Commends Cigna and Merck

Monday, May 25th, 2009

CHVI President Cyndy Nayer is quoted in an article on HartfordBusiness.com, praising an unusual pay-for-performance contract between Cigna and Merck. The deal is this: Cigna gets discounts on Merck diabetes drugs Januvia and Janumet if covered patients take their drugs …

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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