Purchasing Versus Providing Care at the VHA
VHA enrollees seeking mental health care and VHA program managers could benefit from data on psychiatric care quality differences between community providers and VHA providers. From a system perspective, VHA-purchased care quality reports and value-based purchasing contracts could include outpatient follow-up quality measures to incentivize higher quality care.
Authors
- Todd H. Wagner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7625-3504)
- Alex H. S. Harris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7267-3077)
- Eric Schmidt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9181-6771)
- Kenneth J. Nieser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6003-1296)
- Cheng Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3199-5069)
Institutions
- VA Palo Alto Health Care System (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Center for Innovation (US)
- National Patient Safety Foundation (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Medical Care
- Published
- 2025-12-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/mlr.0000000000002271
- Primary Topic
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00