VSSL Voices: Beginning a Research Career at VA Puget Sound
In this installment of our “VSSL Voices” series -- which features team members, friends, and supporters of the Lab -- we caught up with...
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What Happens When Hospitals "Co-participate" in Multiple Value-Based Payment Models At the Same Tim?
As value-based payment models continue to scale up nationwide, the issue of "co-participation" -- i.e., situations in which provider...
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Publication: Pathways to Support Population-Based Payment Models
Clinical pathways can be a key strategy for succeeding in value-based payment models. However, in contrast to their place in inpatient...
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In the News: Discharge to Home vs SNF?
In the lead story of its September 2019 issue, the American College of Physicians Hospitalist describes how few tools and competing...
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Publication: Time to "Cool Off" on Hotspotting in Primary Care?
Health care "hotspotting" -- defined by some as "the strategic use of data to reallocate resources to a small subset of high-needs,...
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In the News: When Value-Based Payment Models Overlap
Modern Healthcare recently published an article -- featured online and in print -- about the issue of overlap between new, value-based...
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VSSL Voices: New Role with the HCA
VSSL member Christopher Chen, MD, MBA recently transitioned from his existing role as Hospitalist and Medical Director of Value...
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Publication: Overlap between Voluntary Bundled Payments and Accountable Care Organizations
Accountable care organization programs (ACOs) and bundled payments represent prominent nationwide value-based payment models, but the...
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A Value-Based Framework for Defining and Operationalizing Care Pathways
Care Pathways are an important tool in the translation of evidence-based medicine to the delivery of high quality, high value care....
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Roundtable with Suzan Delbene: The impact of cost-sharing for CCM on patients and clinicians
by Leah Marcotte, MD & Carly Hudelson, MD, MSc On Friday, August 2, the Washington State Medical Association hosted an event with...
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Publication: Advancing Bundled Payments Through Radiation Oncology Episodes
In this week's Health Affairs blog, VSSL team member Dr. Joshua Liao was senior author on an article about Medicare's newly proposed...
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Publication: Professionalism as the Bedrock of High-Value Care
In the journal Academic Medicine, VSSL team member Dr. Leah Marcotte lead-authored an article arguing that professionalism can be a key...
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Introducing: VSSL Views
Health systems play an integral role in the nationwide shift towards value-based payment and care. In particular, they must evaluate and...
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