About Tiffany Wang, Student Fellow
Tiffany Wang is a rising 2L who grew up in the Bay Area and received her BS in Biology at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She is a staff editor for the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly Journal and the current co-internal vice president of the Hastings Health Law Organization. Prior to law school, Tiffany worked as a public law legal secretary and political compliance clerk at Rutan and Tucker, LLP, and was actively involved in the creation of the Young Professional Council, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center’s nonprofit junior board. In her spare time, Tiffany enjoys going hiking, camping, traveling the world, and experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen.The Source Roundup: February 2020 Edition
Tiffany Wang, Student Fellow February 3, 2020
Happy February! Here at The Source, we are grateful for the extra day in February to give our readers time to catch up with the latest health policy analysis and literature. This edition of the Source Roundup looks at articles and reports on 1) how monopolies have hurt consumers and what states can do to combat hospital acquisitions and mergers, 2) how well states are doing to make health care affordable; 3) why a single-payer system is financially feasible; and 4) what the United States can learn from other countries’ …
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The Source Roundup: December 2019 Edition
Tiffany Wang, Student Fellow December 2, 2019
Happy December! The holiday season is upon us and it is time to cozy up with a warm cup of tea to the latest health policy news. This edition of the Source Roundup looks at articles on 1) healthcare market consolidation and provider network access, 2) increases in insurance premium contributions and deductibles, and 3) lessons from healthcare system reforms abroad. Healthcare Markets Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have been lauded for providing higher quality medical care at lower costs. In a recent Health Affairs research article, Changes in Physician Consolidation …
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The Source Roundup: May 2019 Edition
Tiffany Wang, Student Fellow May 1, 2019
Happy May! We hope you’re enjoying the longer, sunnier days of spring. In this edition of The Source Roundup, we survey articles and reports that discuss 1) health system consolidation’s impact on healthcare prices and quality, 2) the new federal price transparency rule, and 3) cost-containment strategies from various fronts. More Evidence of Hospital Market Concentration’s Negative Impact on Competition and Healthcare Costs Two articles this month reinforced the principle that protecting access to affordable healthcare requires strong antitrust enforcement policies to ensure adequate competition among hospitals and hospital systems. …
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Beyond Price Shopping: How Stakeholders Utilize All-Payer Claims Databases to Address Rising Health Care Costs
Tiffany Wang, Student Fellow and Megan O'Leary, Student Fellow January 22, 2019
Since 2005, Americans have identified the availability and cost of health care as one of their top concerns. Health care costs have risen due to various factors, such as reliance on fee-for-service payment systems, lack of patient engagement, and lack of coordination and management. In recent years, state legislatures have focused on increasing price transparency in the hopes that it will drive down health care costs by encouraging consumer price shopping. One means of promoting price transparency is through the use of database tools, such as state-mandated all-payer claims databases …
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Evaluating the Impact of the Trump Administration’s New Regulations to Expand Association Health Plans and Short-Term, Limited-Duration Plans
Tiffany Wang, Student Fellow October 5, 2018
Within the past few months, federal agencies passed two major healthcare regulations that could have significant consequences to the healthcare market. The Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule on Association Health Plans (AHPs) that expands the definition of “employer” under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury issued a final rule that expands access to short-term, limited-duration coverage plans (STLDs). The two plans should not be conflated with each other as they offer health insurance coverage …
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The Source Roundup: September 2018 Edition
Tiffany Wang, Student Fellow September 4, 2018
Happy September! We hope you’ve enjoyed the Labor Day weekend and ready for the fall! In this edition of The Source Roundup, we cover five academic articles and reports from July and August. This month we look at (1) monopoly in the ACA marketplace; (2) the recent Ohio v. American Express U.S. Supreme Court decision; and a trio of articles that examine accountable care organizations in terms of (3) ACO growth in 2018; (4) ACO effectiveness in reducing health care costs; and (5) the proposed changes to ACOs in the …
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The Source Roundup: August 2018 Edition
Tiffany Wang, Student Fellow August 1, 2018
Happy August! In this edition of the Source Roundup, we cover four academic articles and reports from June and July. The topics this month include: (1) price transparency as a means to affordable health care; (2) effect of state-based individual mandates; (3) Trump’s 5-Part Medicare Part D plan; and (4) Medicare’s experiment with bundled payments. Price Transparency Goals to Achieve Affordable Health Care Skeptics have questioned whether consumer price transparency initiatives are an effective means of driving down healthcare costs. In the NEJM Catalyst article, “Defining the Goals of …
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