VSSL1 minHow Did Group Practices Perform in the First Year of Medicare's MIPS program?VSSL director Joshua Liao and colleagues recently published an analysis of performance among group practices in the first year of Medicare's Merit-based Ince...
VSSL2 minTo Beat COVID-19, Address Primary Care PaymentIn an article published in Medpage Today, VSSL Director Joshua Liao wrote about the need to address primary care payment as part of our nationwide response t...
VSSL1 minPayment Model Brief: Primary Care FirstIn the newest installment of the VSSL Brief series, Drs. Jonathan Staloff, Joshua Liao, Ashok Reddy, and Leah Marcotte provide an overview of Primary Care Fi...
VSSL2 minVSSL Voices: Experience of a VSSL FellowIn this installment of our “VSSL Voices” series, we heard from Dr. Catherine Hwang, an internal medicine resident at Virginia Mason Medical Center and curre...
VSSL1 minUpcoming Event: VSSL To Hold Session at Faculty Development BootcampWant to learn more about VSSL and it's approach to creating impact? On May 14th, VSSL members Dr. Leah Marcotte and Dr. Joshua Liao will lead a session at th...
VSSL2 minIssue Brief: Medicare Annual Wellness VisitIn a recent VSSL Volumes Issue Brief, VSSL members Drs. Kate Majzoub Perez and Joshua Liao provide a summary of key points related to Chronic Care Management...
VSSL1 minWhen Should Medicare Use Voluntary versus Mandatory Payment Models to Drive Health Care Value?In a recent Health Affairs article written with colleagues at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Uni...
VSSL2 minA 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 "hotspotting" intervention d...
VSSL1 minIssue Brief: Chronic Care Management (CCM) ServicesIn a recent VSSL Volumes Issue Brief, VSSL members Drs. Catherine Hwang, Leah Marcotte, Ashok Reddy, and Joshua Liao provide a summary of key points related ...
VSSL1 minBundled Payments for Joint Replacement Surgery: Orthopedics Grand Rounds with VSSL DirectorVSSL Director Dr. Joshua Liao recently presented the University of Washington Department of Orthopedics Grand Rounds, delivering a presentation titled, "Bund...
VSSL1 minNationwide Trends in TCM Use, 2013-2018In a recent article published in JAMA Network Open, VSSL members Dr. Leah Marcotte (first author) and Joshua Liao (senior author) led a team including other ...
VSSL4 minVSSL Voices: Teaching Health SystemsIn this installment of our “VSSL Voices” series, we caught up with Dr. Anders Chen, general internist and health systems education leader in the University o...
VSSL1 minIssue Brief: Transitional Care Management (TCM) ServicesIn a recent VSSL Volumes Issue Brief, VSSL member Dr. Leah Marcotte and UW Internal Medicine resident Dr. Carly Hudelson (a 2019-2020 VSSL Policy and Care De...
VSSL1 minIntegrating Palliative Care Into the Oncology Care Model via Clinical PathwaysIn a recent article, UW Internal Medicine resident Dr. Nikita Vashi and VSSL Director Dr. Joshua Liao discussed ways to use clinical pathways to integrate pa...
VSSL1 minIn Search of Value: Grand Rounds with VSSL DirectorOn November 14, VSSL Director Dr. Joshua Liao delivered University of Washington Department of Medicine Grand Rounds via a presentation titled, "In Search of...
VSSL2 minVSSL Voices: Gaining Exposure to Health Systems Work During ResidencyIn this installment of our “VSSL Voices” series -- which features team members, friends, and supporters of the Lab -- we learned more about Dr. Kate Majzoub ...
VSSL1 minMIPS Value Pathways: A Worthy Effort, but More Cost Measures Needed for SuccessIn Health Affairs blog, VSSL team member Dr. Joshua Liao and VSSL Policy and Care Delivery Immersive participant Sophie Miller wrote an article about a key f...
VSSL1 minWhat Medical Residents and Fellows Think About the Merit-Based Incentive Payment SystemIn a recent publication in the Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy, VSSL member Dr. Joshua Liao and colleagues report results from a web-based ...
VSSL2 minCan "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 and Leonard Davis Ins...
VSSL2 minWhat 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 organizations participat...