AcademyHealth: Value-based insurance design can increase value without saving money

In 2008, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina initiated a value-based insurance design program that reduced coopayments for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and congestive heart failure medications. What happened next?* I summarize recent research findings in a new post on the AcademyHealth blog.

* ARGH! Upworthy has so polluted my mind it took all my strength not to write, “What happened next will break your heart.” Anyway, go read the post.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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