Value-based insurance design and the next generation of consumer-driven health care

Health Aff (Millwood). 2007 Mar-Apr;26(2):w204-7. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.2.w204. Epub 2007 Jan 30.

Abstract

The next generation of consumer-driven care will require more attention to value-based insurance design so as to ensure that patients have access to appropriate and high-quality care. This can be accomplished so long as insurers carefully integrate financial incentives into benefit design, build advice about evidence-based medicine into their plans, and thoroughly use the increased facility of information technology in their efforts.

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Consumer Behavior / economics*
  • Cost Control
  • Cost Sharing*
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Evidence-Based Medicine / economics
  • Forecasting
  • Humans
  • Insurance, Health*
  • Models, Organizational
  • Quality Assurance, Health Care / economics*
  • Total Quality Management
  • United States