Smarter Care Virginia, Examining Low-Value Care in Virginia

Inclusion Criteria

• •All adult patients (aged 18 or older) at each of the six health systems who are at risk for receiving low-value care across each of the nine measures.
• •For preoperative testing, eligible patients include those with a health system evaluation and management visits 30 days prior to low-risk surgery.
• •For eye imaging, eligible patients will be patients with evaluation and management visits with a health system ophthalmologist/optometrist.
• •For cardiac screening, eligible patients are patients with an ambulatory evaluation and management visit (all specialties).
• •For the PICC line measure, eligible patients would include hospitalized patients.
• •For the low-back pain measures, eligible patients include those who have a diagnosis of low-back pain or acute low-back pain.