Washington Health Alliance

New Study Finds Hundreds of Thousands of Washington Patients Receive Unnecessary Tests, Procedures, and Treatments

Posted February 1st, 2018 by Aaron Ameen & filed under Alliance News, Alliance Reports, Choosing Wisely, Cost of Health Care, Health Care Quality, Homepage, Overuse, Read Press Release, Shared Decision Making.

In one year, an estimated $282 million was spent on “wasteful” health care for 622,000 Washington patients Washington becomes just the third state in the nation to use a new

Celebrating 5 years of Choosing Wisely

Posted April 4th, 2017 by Aaron Ameen & filed under Alliance News, Choosing Wisely, Homepage, Own Your Health, Patient Experience, Shared Decision Making, The Alliance Blog.

Today we celebrate Choosing Wisely’s 5th anniversary! The Alliance is proud to be a grantee of this exciting and important campaign and to play a part in helping to advance

Alliance partnerships advance health care value in Washington state

Posted February 11th, 2016 by Aaron Ameen & filed under Health Care Value, Healthier Washington, Homepage, Letter from the Executive Director, Shared Decision Making, The Alliance Blog.

I am pleased to announce that the Alliance will continue to contract with the Washington State Health Care Authority in 2016 for work related to the CMS/CMMI State Innovation Model

Shared decision making and strengthening the role of the health care consumer

Posted November 6th, 2015 by Aaron Ameen & filed under Consumer Engagement, Homepage, Letter from the Executive Director, Shared Decision Making, The Alliance Blog.

Improving the performance of our health care system requires collaboration between all stakeholders – providers, purchasers, health plans and consumers. For a decade, the Alliance has worked to strengthen the

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