Value-Based Insurance Program Raises Member Compliance With Treatment

During the first two years after Connecticut implemented a voluntary value-based insurance program (VBID) for state employees in 2011, the participants had higher rates of medication adherence for chronic health conditions. Their use of targeted preventive care services increased, and their emergency department use decreased. The program’s impact on costs was inconclusive.

Connecticut’s Health Enhancement Program for state employees followed the principles of VBID by lowering patient costs for certain high-value primary and chronic disease preventive services, and added requirements that enrollees receive these services. The program was intended to curb cost growth and improve health . . .