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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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Announcing: The Decision Science Group
Dear VSSL friends and supporters, We are happy to announce the launch of the Decision Science Group (DSG) -- a collaboration between the...
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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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Introducing: The Decision Science Group
Human decisions and behaviors represent "final common pathways" for nearly all health care interventions. To achieve their potential to...
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Do benefits from Medicare joint replacement bundles spillover to other patients?
In a new article in the Annals of Internal Medicine, VSSL Director Joshua Liao & colleagues from the Payment Insights Team provide new...
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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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Do Benefits from Joint Replacement Bundles "Spill Over" to benefit other patients?
In a recent article, VSSL Director Joshua Liao led a team that evaluated whether benefits from the Comprehensive Care for Joint...
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VSSL Director Takes On New Editorial Board Position
Congrats to VSSL Director Dr. Joshua Liao, who was recently appointed as an editorial board member of the Journal of Hospital Management...
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Apply Now to Work in VSSL!
Interested in how people make decisions, and how those decisions affects health care outcomes? At VSSL, we believe that (a) human...
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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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VSSL Takes On New Projects to Promote Equity in Health Care Payment, Delivery & Decisions
VSSL was created to transform data and ideas into actionable insight that improves health outcomes. To achieve that mission, the Lab has...
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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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