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Can Telehealth Enable New Care Management Strategies In Value-Based Payment Models?
VSSL Director Dr. Joshua Liao thinks so. In a blog article published in Health Affairs, Dr. Liao and collaborator Amol Navathe argued...
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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...
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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...
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How Do Safety-Net Hospitals Perform on Episode Spending Measures?
In a recent publication, VSSL members Dr. Joshua Liao and Lingmei Zhou partnered with Amol Navathe from the University of Pennsylvania to...
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How Organizations Can Use Care Management Codes to Bridge Health Care Volume & Value
The optimal approach for transitioning toward value-based payment and care remains unclear for many clinicians and health care...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Issue Brief: Medicare Annual Wellness Visit
In a recent VSSL Volumes Issue Brief, VSSL members Drs. Kate Majzoub Perez and Joshua Liao provide a summary of key points related to...
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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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Bundled Payments for Joint Replacement Surgery: Orthopedics Grand Rounds with VSSL Director
VSSL Director Dr. Joshua Liao recently presented the University of Washington Department of Orthopedics Grand Rounds, delivering 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...
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Issue Brief: Transitional Care Management (TCM) Services
In a recent VSSL Volumes Issue Brief, VSSL member Dr. Leah Marcotte and UW Internal Medicine resident Dr. Carly Hudelson (a 2019-2020...
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Integrating Palliative Care Into the Oncology Care Model via Clinical Pathways
In a recent article, UW Internal Medicine resident Dr. Nikita Vashi and VSSL Director Dr. Joshua Liao discussed ways to use clinical...
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