In a new collaboration between VSSL and the Washington State Health Care Authority, lab members will work with a team at the HCA to evaluate telehealth use in the Covid-19 era, with a focus on health care payment and delivery. In conjunction with a team at the HCA, this collaborative body of work will be led by VSSL members Drs. Joshua Liao and Ashok Reddy. The work consists of several parts. In the first, Drs. Liao and Reddy led the creation of a report describing work done

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 University of Pennsylvania, VSSL Director Dr. Joshua Liao provided thought leadership about the benefits and drawbacks of mandatory versus voluntary value-based payment models. Liao JM, Pauly MV, Navathe AS. When Should Medicare Mandate Participation in Alternative Payment Models? Health Aff. 2020;39(2):305-309. As Dr. Liao

In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of researchers reported results from a prospectively designed "hotspotting" intervention designed by the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers to improve outcomes among superutilizers, patients with very high use of health care services. The intervention involves a team of nurses, social workers, and community health workers working with superutilizers after hospital discharge to coordinate ambulatory care