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Executive Editor Jaime King was quoted in the 7/30/2020 New Times San Luis Obispo article Big health: A look at how the Central Coast’s two hospital systems shape local health care costs: “The data is incredibly clear on this,” said Jaime King, a professor at UC Hastings College of Law who specializes in health care markets and policy. “Hospital mergers result in significant price increases almost immediately. Both entities’ prices go up as a result. Neighboring hospitals’ prices go up, too, as a shadow effect. It’s having an even bigger effect …

The Nevada Patient Protection Commission Presentation on drivers of healthcare costs and efforts to improve transparency in healthcare pricing Presentation: “Addressing High Health Care Prices: Transparency, Enforcement, and Legislation” Meeting Recording Meeting Minutes

“Covid-19 and the Need for Health Care Reform” Author: Jaime S. King

Hot off the press: JAMA Health Forum article Promoting Health Care Transparency via State Legislative Efforts highlights state health transparency legislation from The State Laws Impacting Healthcare Cost (SLIHCQ) Database, a public database established by The Source on Healthcare Price and Competition and Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR). The article looks at specific examples of state transparency legislation catalogued in the database including: All-payer claims database (APCD) – New Hampshire, Colorado Right-to-shop – Maine, Utah Surprise or balance billing – New York Find out details of these state legislation and …

California State Assembly on Health: Hearing on Cost Containment: Key Policy Considerations for California Presentation: “Trends and Approaches to Health Care Industry Consolidation”

For those of you who have followed the storied trajectory of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), affectionately called Obamacare, strap yourselves in because here we go again. After months of waiting for an opinion, on December 18, 2020, which incidentally was the day of Donald Trump’s impeachment, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued its opinion in Texas v. U.S., the most recent challenge to the constitutionality of the ACA. The three-judge panel ruled two to one that the individual mandate was unconstitutional in the absence of a tax penalty, …

The National Academy of Medicine’s Leadership Consortium: Collaboration for a Value & Science-Driven Learning Health System Value Incentives & Systems Action Collaborative Presentation: “Affordability in Health Care: The Roles of Consolidation and Price Transparency”

Jaime King was quoted in the 10/8/2019 San Francisco Chronicle article “Antitrust case against Sutter Health due to begin this week”.

Jaime King was quoted in the 10/3/2019 New York Times article High Medical Bills Are at Center of Hospital Group’s Trial: Jaime King, a law professor at U.C. Hastings College of the Law, described the approach as “a landmark case.” Rather than trying to block a merger over antitrust concerns, the Sutter trial is an attempt to attack the practices of a powerful hospital system. “The Sutter case is challenging a whole system of behavior,” she said.

Jaime King was quoted in the 9/20/2019 Bloomberg Law article “Sutter Antitrust Class Action Could Upend Industry Consolidation”: Health-care costs are one of the most important concerns in the U.S., said Jaime King, associate dean of the University of California Hastings School of Law and director of the Concentration on Law and Health Sciences. “I know that attorneys general in other states are paying very close attention to what’s happening because concentration is not something that is just happening in California—it’s happening all over the country. If successful we will …