Low Value Care

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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 me...

VSSL

2 min

VSSL Director Appointed to National Payment Model Committee

Congrats to VSSL Director Dr. Joshua Liao for his recent appointment to the national Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory C...

VSSL

1 min

Year-in-Review at VSSL

Dear Friends and Colleagues, There’s no way around it: this has been a challenging year on many fronts, complicating the ability to focus...

VSSL

2 min

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 Medi...

VSSL

1 min

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...

VSSL

4 min

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...

VSSL

1 min

In Search of Value: Grand Rounds with VSSL Director

On November 14, VSSL Director Dr. Joshua Liao delivered University of Washington Department of Medicine Grand Rounds via a presentation t...

VSSL

2 min

VSSL Voices: Gaining Exposure to Health Systems Work During Residency

In this installment of our “VSSL Voices” series -- which features team members, friends, and supporters of the Lab -- we learned more abo...

VSSL

1 min

MIPS Value Pathways: A Worthy Effort, but More Cost Measures Needed for Success

In Health Affairs blog, VSSL team member Dr. Joshua Liao and VSSL Policy and Care Delivery Immersive participant Sophie Miller wrote an a...

VSSL

1 min

The Shift Towards Measuring Low-Value Care: What Can We Learn from Decades Measuring Quality?

There is wide recognition that promoting healthcare value involves decreasing ‘low-value’ services—care without clinical benefit, little ...

VSSL

2 min

Can "Nudges" be Used to Guide Cancer Screening Decisions?

In a recent article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology with collaborators at the Perelman School of Medicine a...

VSSL

3 min

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 D...

VSSL

2 min

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 orga...

VSSL

3 min

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 Managemen...

VSSL

2 min

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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