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Shared Decision Making
New Study Finds Hundreds of Thousands of Washington Patients Receive Unnecessary Tests, Procedures, and Treatments
February 1, 2018 by Washington Health Alliance
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... Read more »Celebrating 5 years of Choosing Wisely
April 4, 2017 by Washington Health Alliance
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... Read more »Alliance partnerships advance health care value in Washington state
February 11, 2016 by Nancy A. Giunto
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... Read more »Shared decision making and strengthening the role of the health care consumer
November 6, 2015 by Nancy A. Giunto
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... Read more »