Life insurance has often been marketed as a tax-efficient way to minimize or avoid the solvency risk and “substantial risk of forfeiture” required by traditional deferred compensation designs in ...

The University of Michigan's Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID Center) in Ann Arbor was created in 2005 to lead the development of innovative health benefit designs that balance cost and ...

A look at value-based insurance design, and how it provides a way to reduce financial barriers to care for people with chronic conditions. This article was written by Jon Christianson, PhD, Medica ...

Marjorie Ginsburg ( [email protected]) is the executive director of the Center for Healthcare Decisions, in Rancho Cordova, California. Value-based insurance designs frequently lower consumers’ cost ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Through the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) ...

Rajender Agarwal ([email protected]) is director of the Center for Health Reform, in Southlake, Texas. At the time this work was completed, he was a Business of Medicine MBA candidate at Indiana ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bind Benefits, Inc., released data that illustrates the impact better health insurance design is having on consumers and their employers. The biggest takeaway: Consumers ...

The TriZetto Group Inc. announced this week a partnership with professors who founded the value-based insurance design movement to develop chronic-condition templates as options for healthcare payer ...

Some time ago, I suggested a rule of thumb for advisors reviewing a proposal for premium financing. The rule’s simple: If you don’t see a stress-tested, clear-cut exit strategy that would allow the ...

Discussions about health insurance almost always include at least an allusion to value. Whether the carrier is implementing a value-based payment model or whether the employer is attempting to get ...