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The Source’s Katherine L. Gudiksen co-authors report on health care market oversight

The Milbank Memorial Fund has published a report titled “Models for Enhanced Health Care Market Oversight — State Attorneys General, Health Departments, and Independent Oversight Entities” authored by Erin C. Fuse Brown and The Source’s own Katherine L. Gudiksen.

The report looks at tools state policymakers are using to address harmful health care market consolidation, focusing on how states have expanded the review authority of the Attorney General (or other state agencies), and have given authority to review transactions to additional oversight entities.  The authors reviewed applicable state statutes and regulations, and interviewed state policymakers, to create recommendations and considerations for policymakers to strengthen oversight authority of health care transactions.

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