Quality Improvement

Analysis: How Receiving Care Under Both ACOs and bundled Payments Affects Outcomes

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Analysis: How Receiving Care Under Both ACOs and bundled Payments Affects Outcomes

In collaboration with colleagues on the Payment Insights Team and at the Leonard Davis Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr....

Insights from the Field: How Do Doctors Think the MIPS program improves value?

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Insights from the Field: How Do Doctors Think the MIPS program improves value?

In a recent analysis published in the American Journal of Accountable Care, VSSL members Leah Marcotte, Lingmei Zhou, and Joshua Liao...

New Analysis: Trends in Behavioral Health Integration

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New Analysis: Trends in Behavioral Health Integration

In a recent article published in Psychiatric Services, VSSL members Dr. Leah Marcotte (first author) and Joshua Liao (senior author) led...

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Conference Round-Up: VSSL presentations at National Meetings

Recently, VSSL team members participated in several national conferences focused on health systems issues. Dr. Joshua Liao presented "The...

New White Paper: Framework for Primary Care Reform

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New White Paper: Framework for Primary Care Reform

Despite the association between primary care and better health outcomes, growing calls for primary care reform highlight the fact that...

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Enhancing Value-Based Payment Models Using Telehealth

"The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has driven clinicians and organizations around the country to expand their telehealth...

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Using Innovation Methods to Navigate COVID-19 Resurgence

Covid is far from over. Despite many changes since the beginning of the pandemic, health care providers may nonetheless face the need to...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Care Management

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Care Management

Drs. Marcotte and Liao articulate a framework for categorizing care management as disease management, utilization management, and/or...

Key Features Underlying Low-Value Care Recommendations

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Key Features Underlying Low-Value Care Recommendations

In an article published in the American Journal of Medical Quality, VSSL members Leah Marcotte and Joshua Liao analyze the features...

The Reliability of Quality Metrics in the Time of Value-Based Payment

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The Reliability of Quality Metrics in the Time of Value-Based Payment

In an article published in the American Journal of Medical Quality, a VSSL team from Dr. Linnaea Schuttner (lead author) and Dr. Joshua...

What Many Providers Talk About with "Covid Recovery Strategy" is not Strategy

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What Many Providers Talk About with "Covid Recovery Strategy" is not Strategy

In an article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, VSSL Director Dr. Joshua Liao makes the case for...

New Data: Trends in Annual Wellness Visits

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New Data: Trends in Annual Wellness Visits

In a recent article led by VSSL Fellow Dr. Kate Morgan and published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, a group of VSSL team...

To Beat COVID-19, Address Primary Care Payment

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To Beat COVID-19, Address Primary Care Payment

In an article published in Medpage Today, VSSL Director Joshua Liao wrote about the need to address primary care payment as part of our...

Behavioral Economics & "Diffusion of Responsibility"

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Behavioral Economics & "Diffusion of Responsibility"

At a recent Certificate Program Event (organized through the UW Medicine Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety), VSSL...

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Payment Model Brief: Primary Care First

In the newest installment of the VSSL Brief series, Drs. Jonathan Staloff, Joshua Liao, Ashok Reddy, and Leah Marcotte provide an...

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VSSL Voices: Experience of a VSSL Fellow

In this installment of our “VSSL Voices” series, we heard from Dr. Catherine Hwang, an internal medicine resident at Virginia Mason...

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A Prominent Hotspotting Program Didn't Show Benefit for High Need Patients. What's Next?

In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of researchers reported results from a prospectively designed...

Issue Brief: Chronic Care Management (CCM) Services

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Issue Brief: Chronic Care Management (CCM) Services

In a recent VSSL Volumes Issue Brief, VSSL members Drs. Catherine Hwang, Leah Marcotte, Ashok Reddy, and Joshua Liao provide a summary of...

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Nationwide Trends in TCM Use, 2013-2018

In a recent article published in JAMA Network Open, VSSL members Dr. Leah Marcotte (first author) and Joshua Liao (senior author) led a...

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VSSL Voices: Teaching Health Systems

In this installment of our “VSSL Voices” series, we caught up with Dr. Anders Chen, general internist and health systems education leader...