Happy Holidays from VSSL!
**A message from VSSL Director Joshua Liao** As tough as this year has been, I hope it closes well this holiday season for everyone. It's...
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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...
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What's a Public Option Insurance Plan? An example from Washington State
In a new VSSL Issue Brief, VSSL members Anna Morenz and Joshua Liao describe key elements of "public option" health plans in Cascade...
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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...
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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...
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VSSL Voices: Working on Primary Care Investment in Washington State
In this installment of our “VSSL Voices” series, we heard from Dr. Jonathan Staloff, a family medicine resident at the University of...
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Who Do Physicians Believe Will Benefit from MIPS?
This is one question posed and evaluated by VSSL Director Dr. Joshua Liao and colleague in a recent paper published in the Journal of...
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Want to understand and treat others better during Covid-19? Fix this cognitive bias
In a recent article published in Forbes, VSSL Director Dr. Joshua Liao highlights the issue of attribution bias -- a cognitive tendency...
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When It Comes to ACO Strategy, One Size Won't Fit All
In a paper published in the American Journal of Accountable Care, VSSL members Drs. Leah Marcotte and Joshua Liao describe how one size...
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NEWS: VSSL Collaborates with the Washington State Health Care Authority
In a new collaboration between VSSL and the Washington State Health Care Authority, lab members will work with a team at the HCA to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Leah Marcotte Selected as a CATALyST K12 Scholar
Congratulations to VSSL member, Dr. Leah Marcotte, who was recently accepted into the CATALyST K12 program, which "brings together four...
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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...
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New: Bundled Payments Save Money for Medical Condition Episodes (Not Just Surgery)
In a recent article in the British Journal of Medicine, VSSL's Dr. Joshua Liao and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania...
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Payment Model Brief: Direct Contracting
In the latest VSSL brief, a group of Lab team members provided an overview of Direct Contracting, a set of forthcoming payment models...
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New Insights About Episode Spending Among US Hospitals
In a recent publication in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, VSSL members Dr. Joshua Liao and Lingmei Zhou reported results from an...
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How 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...
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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...
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