About: Jaime S. King, Executive Editor
Jaime S. King is a Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. She is also the Associate Dean and Co-Faculty Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Science, Law and Health Policy, the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Masters in Health Law and Policy Program, and the Director of the Concentration on Law and Health Sciences. Professor King holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University, a J.D. from Emory University, and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.Academic Articles & Reports Roundup: September 2016
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor October 1, 2016
September brought us (slightly) cooler days, the hustle and bustle of a new school year, and a lot of interesting new articles on healthcare cost and competition! This roundup includes articles on 1) Quality and Its Impact on Cost|2) Prescription Drug Costs|3) Competition and Markets|and 4) Hospital Pricing and Charges. Quality and Its Impact on Cost We all know that quality has a loose, and sometimes inverse, association with healthcare costs, but this month some articles really focused on the relationship between quality (improvement and measurement) and cost. JAMA published …
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Academic Articles and Reports Round-Up: August 2015
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor August 31, 2015
The end of summer is always so bittersweet. As the long days filled with sun, swimming, and a bit more time for family and fun wind down, they are replaced with an undeniable excitement in the air. A promise of new opportunities and endless possibilities seems to accompany the start of the new school year. As you gear up for the fall, the August Roundup has all you need to catch up on your reading on healthcare price and competition. The August literature focused on three key topics: 1) Medicare …
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Academic Articles & Reports Round Up: July 2015
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor July 31, 2015
In July, insurance mergers were all the rage. Anthem-Cigna, Aetna-Humana, the Big 5 becoming the Big 3, you’ve heard all about it. The DOJ and House Judiciary Committee have plans to look into the impact of these potential mergers on health insurance markets, and The Source will be there to keep you posted. In the meantime, check out the following articles and reports that came out in July. If you can’t get enough of the health insurance merger discussion, we’ve got a few things to whet your appetite. Thomas “Tim” …
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Price Transparency in Minnesota: Why Not?
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor and Anne Marie Helm July 17, 2015
On June 29, the FTC responded by comment letter to a request from two Minnesota state legislators to analyze the competitive impact of recent amendments to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (MGDPA). The MGDPA is an “open records” law that aims to provide greater accountability for government by granting public access to government data through Freedom of Information Act requests. The amendments at issue would expand the MGDPA to cover all data collected by health maintenance organizations, health plans, and other health services vendors contracting with the state to …
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Academic Articles & Reports Round Up: June 2015
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor and Anne Marie Helm June 30, 2015
It’s officially summer! Exams are over|Moms, Dads, and Grads have celebrated their big days|and the Supreme Court is issuing opinions! After you have read King v. Burwell, take a look at what June had to offer in the realm of healthcare price and competition. The Variety Issue of Health Affairs is a great place to catch up on your summer reading. For a brief overview of what’s in the issue related to markets and prices, check out Alan Weil’s introduction Markets, Prices and Incentives. Be sure to check out Eric …
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May Articles & Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor June 2, 2015
Greetings! For the academics among us, its time to wrap up your end of the year grading and see what you’ve been missing in the literature this month. Two themes came out of the literature in May. First, (no surprise to anyone) the American public continues to be frustrated with the lack of transparency and rationality in healthcare prices, but there are some signs of hope. Second, policymakers and academics have proposed numerous payment reforms, which despite their varying degrees of success, only get at a fraction of the problem. …
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April Articles & Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor May 1, 2015
While April brought us little in the way of showers, it did offer a nice range of articles and reports that focus on competition in health care markets and payment reform initiatives, including accountable care organizations (ACOs). This issue of the Roundup will tackle payment reform initiatives first, then move on to competition, and wrap up with a handful of articles examining state initiatives and opportunities. Payment Reform Initiatives The April academic literature examined the ability of payment reform initiatives, including payment for performance, reference pricing, and provider risk sharing …
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March Articles & Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor April 1, 2015
It’s been a big month in health law! King v. Burwell was argued before the Supreme Court, the House voted to repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR), a two-year CHIP extension was passed, and the Supreme Court held that physicians did not have the right to sue state Medicaid programs for greater reimbursements in Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center. While you were busy reading about these and countless other developments in our ever changing healthcare system, quite a bit has been published related to healthcare prices and competition. This month’s …
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Update: Prime Backs out of Daughters Hospital Deal Due to California AG’s “Onerous” Conditions
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor and Anne Marie Helm March 10, 2015
Update (March 10, 2015): Today Prime announced that it would not go forward with its proposed acquisition of six Daughters of Charity hospitals. Prime cited the California Attorney General’s onerous conditions as its reason for backing out of the deal. Those conditions, which certainly tested Prime’s commitment to the type of acquisition and future plans for the charity hospitals that the AG’s office envisioned, are detailed below in our original post on this potential sale. The remaining challenge is for Daughters, whose future is uncertain without a purchaser to turn …
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February Articles & Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor March 2, 2015
In February, we saw assessments of health policy ideas from the level of national health reform right down to very specific cost saving initiatives. This issue of the Roundup will start with the broad and theoretical and move toward the specific. Big picture health reform In Managed Competition in Health Insurance, Stanford economists Liran Einav and Jonathan Levin examine the potential for regulated markets to outperform single payer public insurance. Specifically, they examined the use of managed competition in Medicare as a means of demonstrating how adverse selection and market …
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