“…Recent national and single-center studies have shown considerable variability in post-LT health care utilization and that much of the cost in the first post-LT year, apart from the transplant hospitalization, is driven by readmissions. (1,2) Zeidan et al, (3) in this issue of Liver Transplantation, provide important follow-up data on the authors' prior work of strategies to reduce health care utilization after LT. (4) Several years ago, the transplant team had convened a multidisciplinary group, including physicians, advanced practice providers, social workers, and dietitians who developed a protocol to reduce readmissions by redefining admission criteria and establishing outpatient alternatives to hospital admission. They employed a systematic approach using the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle, a well-accepted QI methodology, which has been adapted from industry to health care.…”