Value-Based Purchasing in Health Care

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Mar 27, 2025

Evaluation of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test: 2020 to 2023

We evaluated the Medicare Advantage (MA) Value-Based Insurance Design Model test that allowed participating MA parent organizations to offer supplemental benefits, financial and nonfinancial incentives to beneficiaries, and hospice benefits.
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Jan 10, 2025

The Association Between the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test and Beneficiary Risk Scores: Supplementary Analyses of 2023 Evaluation Report Findings

In this report, we conduct sensitivity analyses to better understand the relationship between Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) and risk scores.
Research

Jan 10, 2025

Preview of Findings from the Evaluation of the "VBID General" Component of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test (2020-2023)

This report previews key evaluation findings for the period between 2020 and 2023 for VBID General, describing model participants, their interventions, and implementation experiences and summarizing the direction of key model outcomes.
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Oct 13, 2023

Evaluation of Phase II of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test: First Three Years of Implementation (2020–2022)

RAND researchers are conducting a multiyear evaluation of the VBID Model test using a mixed-methods approach that involves surveys, interviews, and quantitative analyses of the relationship between VBID implementation and a variety of outcomes.
Research

Jul 31, 2023

Alternative Payment Models for California's Workers' Compensation System: A Review of Issues and Possible Next Steps

The authors consider possible alternative payment models for use in the California workers' compensation (WC) system, including discussion of the unique constraints and factors embedded within the California WC environment.
Research

May 5, 2023

CalAIM and Specialty Behavioral Health Care: Lessons from Other States on Value-Based Payment

This report examines the experience of state Medicaid agencies with implementation of value-based payment models for behavioral health care and the implications of that experience for future payment reform in California.
Research

Oct 19, 2022

Evaluation of Phase II of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test: First Two Years of Implementation (2020–2021), and Appendixes

This report presents the RAND Corporation team's findings from its evaluation of Phase II of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design model test, for the years 2020 and 2021.
Research

Feb 8, 2022

Physician Compensation Arrangements and Financial Performance Incentives in US Health Systems

This study was a cross-sectional mixed-methods analysis of in-depth multimodal data from 31 POs affiliated with 22 purposefully selected health systems in 4 states. Data were analyzed from June 2019 to September 2020.
Research

Oct 7, 2021

Value-Based Payment and Health Care System Preparedness and Resilience

This report explores issues related to VBP and health system preparedness and resiliency to inform discussions about policy options for jointly promoting value, efficiency, and preparedness in the health care system.
Aug 13, 2021

What Have We Learned About Safety Net Providers and Integrated Care?

The RAND Center of Excellence on Health System Performance summarizes the results of research on safety net providers and integrated care.
Press

Feb 16, 2021

Low-Value Care Among Medicare Recipients Drops Only Marginally Despite Effort to Curb Practices

Spending on low-value health care among fee-for-service Medicare recipients dropped only marginally from 2014 to 2018. This is despite a national campaign to better educate clinicians and increasing use of payment revisions that discourage wasteful care.
Research

Dec 18, 2020

Anesthesiologists and the Transformation of the Healthcare System: A Call to Action

This is the second in a series of six editorials on the changing definitions of safety across the perioperative period and how anesthesiologists can participate in and lead the transformation of health care with focus on patient value.

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Evaluation of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test: 2020 to 2023

The Association Between the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test and Beneficiary Risk Scores: Supplementary Analyses of 2023 Evaluation Report Findings

Preview of Findings from the Evaluation of the "VBID General" Component of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test (2020-2023)

Evaluation of Phase II of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test: First Three Years of Implementation (2020–2022)

Alternative Payment Models for California's Workers' Compensation System: A Review of Issues and Possible Next Steps

CalAIM and Specialty Behavioral Health Care: Lessons from Other States on Value-Based Payment

Evaluation of Phase II of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test: First Two Years of Implementation (2020–2021), and Appendixes

Physician Compensation Arrangements and Financial Performance Incentives in US Health Systems

Value-Based Payment and Health Care System Preparedness and Resilience

What Have We Learned About Safety Net Providers and Integrated Care?

Low-Value Care Among Medicare Recipients Drops Only Marginally Despite Effort to Curb Practices

Anesthesiologists and the Transformation of the Healthcare System: A Call to Action

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Evaluation of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test: 2020 to 2023

The Association Between the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test and Beneficiary Risk Scores: Supplementary Analyses of 2023 Evaluation Report Findings

Preview of Findings from the Evaluation of the "VBID General" Component of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test (2020-2023)

Evaluation of Phase II of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test: First Three Years of Implementation (2020–2022)

Alternative Payment Models for California's Workers' Compensation System: A Review of Issues and Possible Next Steps

CalAIM and Specialty Behavioral Health Care: Lessons from Other States on Value-Based Payment

Evaluation of Phase II of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test: First Two Years of Implementation (2020–2021), and Appendixes

Physician Compensation Arrangements and Financial Performance Incentives in US Health Systems

Value-Based Payment and Health Care System Preparedness and Resilience

What Have We Learned About Safety Net Providers and Integrated Care?

Low-Value Care Among Medicare Recipients Drops Only Marginally Despite Effort to Curb Practices

Anesthesiologists and the Transformation of the Healthcare System: A Call to Action

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