Editor’s Note
The Source’s Jaime King and Others on What’s Left For States After Gobeille
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor March 13, 2016
On March 1, the Supreme Court decided Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., holding that ERISA preempted a Vermont law’s APCD reporting requirements for self-funded employee health plans (see our case brief here). This case has enormous implications for price transparency and cost containment strategies, especially at the state level. To lay out the issues and offer predictions as to Gobeille’s consequences, Health Affairs Blog ran a four-part series on the case, including one by Source Executive Editor and favorite collaborator Erin C. Fuse Brown called The Consequences Of Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual For Health Care …
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Source Advisory Board Member Greaney Weighs in on Big Insurance Mergers
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor February 25, 2016
Last month, in a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, the American Antitrust Institute described the competitive and consumer concerns surrounding the proposed health insurance mergers of Aetna-Humana and Anthem-Cigna. Source Advisory Board Member and AAI Advisor Tim Greaney co-authored the letter with AAI President Diana Moss. Professor Greaney testified before a House subcommittee last September on the dangers posed by the mergers, and submitted this prepared statement (as did Source Executive Editor Jaime King, who submitted this prepared statement). AAI’s letter argues, based on economic evidence, …
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Source Executive Editor Jaime King co-authors Report on ACOs
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor October 19, 2015
Source Executive Editor Jaime King co-authored a new report with researchers at the Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, titled State Actions to Promote and Restrain Commercial Accountable Care Organizations. The reports abstract reads: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), originally developed as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), have grown in both the public and private sectors. Commercial ACOs have the potential to improve healthcare quality and patient outcomes while achieving cost savings. However, they may also present …
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CPR & HCI3 Release State Price Transparency Report Card with Appendix by The Source
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor July 8, 2015
Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) and the Health Care Incentives Improvement Group (HCI3) just released the third edition of the Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws. The report highlights the five states that received non-failing grades, all of which received different grades from 2014: New Hampshire (A), Colorado (B), Maine (B), Vermont (C) and Virginia (C). A key feature of the report is Appendix I: An Analysis of Popular Legal Arguments Against Price Transparency, authored by The Source’s editors, Jaime S. King and Anne Marie Helm. We thank CPR and HCI3 …
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Report Issued on State Policies on Provider Market Power
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor July 17, 2014
The National Academy for Social Insurance and Catalyst for Payment Reform have released a new report entitled “State Policies on Provider Market Power,” that examines common threads among states’ laws in addressing healthcare competition. The Source collaborated with CPR on the underlying research for this important report.
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In the News
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor June 6, 2014
The Source scans a number of the nation’s major newspapers and other online publications to bring you the most relevant media coverage of issues related to healthcare cost and competition. You can find the news you are looking for in a variety of ways: find the most recent news articles by looking at the home page. Or, go directly to the News page to find more articles in chronological order. If you prefer to search by issue, head to the Key Issues page to find news related to healthcare costs, healthcare markets, price …
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Welcome to The Source! A Letter from the Editors
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor and Anne Marie Helm June 5, 2014
Welcome to The Source for Competitive Healthcare! The Source is an independent, nonprofit initiative of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science &|Health Policy that serves as a multi-disciplinary resource for information and analysis about healthcare costs and competition. We created The Source to facilitate efforts to reduce healthcare costs and promote competition in healthcare markets by improving access to information and analysis from a wide range of sources and disciplines. The Source aims to be a one-stop shop for those interested in these issues and efforts. At The Source, you …
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Try the New “States” Menu Option in the Nav Bar!
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor February 2, 2014
All 50 States Have Pages!
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