Kimberly Westrich Talks Benefit Design with AJMC
NPC's Vice President of Health Services Research, Kimberly Westrich, MA, discusses how the healthcare system can incentivize high-value care.
The American Journal of Managed Care posted a four-part video series with NPC’s Kimberly Westrich. Each video addresses pressing topics in value-based care and good practices for #BuildingBetterBenefits. The discussions were taken from Ms. Westrich's panel discussion at the National Alliance 2021 Annual Forum titled, “Building Better Benefits: Rethinking Value-based Benefit Design.”
The video series includes:
- Incentivizing Value-Based Care in Benefit Design and Reimbursement Strategies
- Fallacies in Value-Based Benefit Design
- Effective Strategies for Constructing Value-Based Benefits
- Micro-, Macro-Level Approaches to Improve Value-Based Benefit Design
How Can We Build Better Benefits?
Poorly designed health insurance can create barriers for patients in accessing high-value therapies. By implementing evidence-based, patient-centered solutions we can modernize benefit design to improve patent access while also controlling costs.