In this installment of our “VSSL Voices” series -- which features team members, friends, and supporters of the Lab -- we caught up with...

As value-based payment models continue to scale up nationwide, the issue of "co-participation" -- i.e., situations in which provider...

Clinical pathways can be a key strategy for succeeding in value-based payment models. However, in contrast to their place in inpatient...

In the lead story of its September 2019 issue, the American College of Physicians Hospitalist describes how few tools and competing...

Health care "hotspotting" -- defined by some as "the strategic use of data to reallocate resources to a small subset of high-needs,...

Modern Healthcare recently published an article -- featured online and in print -- about the issue of overlap between new, value-based...

VSSL member Christopher Chen, MD, MBA recently transitioned from his existing role as Hospitalist and Medical Director of Value...

Accountable care organization programs (ACOs) and bundled payments represent prominent nationwide value-based payment models, but the...

Care Pathways are an important tool in the translation of evidence-based medicine to the delivery of high quality, high value care....

by Leah Marcotte, MD & Carly Hudelson, MD, MSc On Friday, August 2, the Washington State Medical Association hosted an event with...

In this week's Health Affairs blog, VSSL team member Dr. Joshua Liao was senior author on an article about Medicare's newly proposed...

In the journal Academic Medicine, VSSL team member Dr. Leah Marcotte lead-authored an article arguing that professionalism can be a key...

Health systems play an integral role in the nationwide shift towards value-based payment and care. In particular, they must evaluate and...