AAPPO Innovations in Value-Based Approaches to Diabetes Care Issue Brief Health Care Reform, Value-Based Insurance Design, and Implications for Diabetes Care

This is the first Innovations in Value-Based Approaches to Diabetes Care Issue Brief, a series by the American Association of Preferred Provider Organizations (AAPPO). This Issue Brief examines how 2010 health care reform legislation incorporated the current benefit trend of Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID), and the potential for VBID approaches to improve care of one of the Nation’s leading chronic diseases, diabetes. VBID strategies are rapidly emerging in the healthcare industry and have been adopted by many commercial payers and plans. Health care reform legislation marked the first federal government recognition of VBID, an approach that places financial and other incentives on evidence-based “high value” treatments.