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Research
Nov 5, 2025
The objective of this paper is to understand responses of primary care clinics to inclusion in a tiered total cost of care insurance benefit design.
Expert Insights
Aug 19, 2025
Many U.S. veterans enrolled with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) also have other health care coverage. The author discusses why, how health insurance interacts with VHA, and how it may result in overpayments for health coverage and care.
Jul 10, 2025
Latine communities in North Carolina face high uninsured rates due to systemic barriers; improved data and community-informed, culturally tailored interventions are needed to increase enrollment in health insurance programs.
Commentary
Apr 23, 2025
Employers and employees can use their health insurance benefit designs to make health care more affordable, and without the need for further taxpayer subsidies, by designing tiered networks of providers who are responsible for meeting specific total cost of care benchmarks.
Feb 28, 2024
A popular concept in health policy discussions is the "iron triangle," positing it is impossible to increase access and quality of care while reducing spending. This paper suggests an alternative approach--"discriminant" coverage designs.
This paper reports on a qualitative study assessing barriers that clinic leaders face, to reduce costs within a tiered cost-sharing commercial health insurance benefit design, that gives both consumers and clinics a strong incentive to reduce costs.
Nov 6, 2023
The guide describes the range of ways that EHRs are being used to capture data on frailty and functional impairment and best practices for implementing algorithms using EHR data for population management and patient-centered care.
Oct 13, 2023
RAND researchers are conducting a multiyear evaluation of the VBID Model test using a mixed-methods approach that involves surveys, interviews, and quantitative analyses of the relationship between VBID implementation and a variety of outcomes.
Oct 27, 2022
We leverage ACA coverage expansions to study the impact of health insurance on opioid-related emergency department visits while accounting for potentially confounding changes in relevant state-level policies.
Oct 19, 2022
This report presents the RAND Corporation team's findings from its evaluation of Phase II of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design model test, for the years 2020 and 2021.
Mar 29, 2022
This report documents findings from the evaluation of Minnesota's waiver, through which the state implemented the Minnesota Premium Security Plan.
This report documents findings from the evaluation of Oregon's waiver, through which the state implemented the Oregon Reinsurance Program (ORP).
