Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Model To Launch In Seven States In 2017

On September 1, 2015, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced plans to launch a Medicare Advantage value-based insurance model demonstration (VBID) in seven states for the 2017 plan year. The five-year demonstration will take place in Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. The VBID model supports health insurer efforts to structure enrollee cost sharing and design elements to encourage enrollees to favor high-value clinical services, which are services that have the greatest potential to positively affect enrollee health relative to cost.

The VBID model will allow the Medicare Advantage plans to . . .