About: Mallory Warner, Health Policy Research Fellow
Mallory Warner, J.D., is a Graduate Research Fellow for The Source on Healthcare Price and Competition. She currently works on the Database of State Laws Impacting Healthcare Cost and Quality (SLIHCQ). Mallory graduated from UC Hastings with honors in 2019 with a concentration in Law and Health Sciences. Throughout law school Mallory worked as an Advanced Clinical Law Student for the Medical Legal Partnership for Seniors Clinic and also as a Research Assistant for the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium. As a Research Assistant, Mallory worked on a housing conservatorship bill that had legal implications for those suffering from mental illness and addiction. She received a Community Public Interest Award in her last year of law school for her advocacy for the underserved in San Francisco. Mallory earned her BA from the State University of New York College at Geneseo where she majored in Sociology and Political Science and ran for the nationally ranked cross country team.Post-Mortem Reflection on SB 977: The Significance of What Could’ve and Should’ve Been
Mallory Warner, Health Policy Research Fellow September 16, 2020
In the 2020 legislative session, California attempted to markedly expand the attorney general’s (AG) powers to intervene in healthcare acquisitions and changes of control. Senate Bill (SB) 977 would have required AG approval before for-profit healthcare entities could consolidate in California. The passage of SB 977 would have been historic and a massive step in antitrust enforcement in the healthcare industry. Unfortunately, SB 977 failed this session without ever being discussed in the Assembly or the Senate. In this post, we review what SB 977 could have done, why it …
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Q&A: The What, When, Who and How of California’s New APCD: The Health Care Payments Data System
Mallory Warner, Health Policy Research Fellow August 17, 2020
Last month, we discussed California healthcare proposals that were postponed or cut due to budget constraints brought on by the pandemic-induced recession. California’s proposed all-payers claims database (APCD) project, the Health Care Payments Data (HPD) Program, was one proposal that survived. The passage of the HPD Program demonstrates the Legislature’s understanding that health care price transparency is important enough to withstand an extreme budget crunch. In this post, we take a look at the specifics of California’s new APCD and answer some important questions about its implementation and what it …
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The California Budget During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Balancing Act
Mallory Warner, Health Policy Research Fellow July 15, 2020
The world in January was a very different place than the world today. The effects of the pandemic-induced recession are clearly reflected in the California budget. In January, California was projected to have a surplus of $5.6 billion. By the Governor’s May Revision, however, the state was facing an estimated deficit of $54.3 billion.[1] The difference of $60 billion in four short months was created by the COVID-19 crisis. As a result, legislative priorities from the beginning of the year inevitably shifted, as the Assembly and Senate approved a $202.1 …
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