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Just Published: Research Report on State-imposed Conditions on Healthcare Provider Transactions
Amy Y. Gu, Managing Editor August 16, 2023
In a new research paper published in Frontiers in Public Health Volume 11, The Source’s Alex Montague, Robin Davison, Katie Gudiksen, and Jaime King examine the use of conditional approvals by state officials on hospital and health system mergers, acquisitions, and other consolidating transactions. While federal antitrust enforcers play an important role in overseeing large mergers, acquisitions, and other consolidating transactions of major healthcare providers, state oversight over healthcare markets is essential to slow consolidation more broadly and address market failures across the country. One method states have used to address …
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The Source to Speak at October 27 Virtual Event: Taming Health Insurance Costs for Employers and Employees
Amy Y. Gu, Managing Editor October 26, 2022
On October 27, The Source Executive Editor Katie Gudiksen will join a panel of experts for the Bipartisan Policy Center in a virtual event on “Taming Health Insurance Costs for Employers and Employees”. The panel is moderated by Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil and will discuss strategies to rein in health care costs and allow employers to provide high-value, cost-effective insurance to their employees. Be sure to register in advance here! October 27 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET | Virtual Participants: Marilyn Serafini (introduction), Executive Director, Health Program, BPC …
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The Source Joins Panel Discussion on Exploring the Market Competition Ecosystem
Amy Y. Gu, Managing Editor October 13, 2022
On October 19, The Source Executive Editor Katie Gudiksen and Distinguished Fellow Tim Greaney will join a panel of experts for the Alliance for Health Policy in a virtual event on “Exploring the Market Competition Ecosystem: Lessons Learned and Next Steps”. The panel will discuss past and current trends in market consolidation ecosystem, explore current legislative and administrative policy levers, and identify lessons learned at the state and federal levels. Be sure to register in advance here! October 19 | 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET | Virtual Speakers: Erin Fuse …
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Just Published in Harvard Journal on Legislation: Are State Public Option Health Plans Worth It?
Amy Y. Gu, Managing Editor March 2, 2022
In a new paper published in the Harvard Journal on Legislation Volume 59, Issue 1, The Source’s Jaime King and Katie Gudiksen, together with Erin Fuse Brown, discuss state public option proposals from 2010–2021, including from states like Nevada, Colorado, and Washington. In examining the three main models—(1) Medicaid Buy-In Public Options; (2) Marketplace-Based Public Options; and (3) Comprehensive Public Options—the paper considers potential challenges to these state public option plans and whether they are legally viable and “worth it” for states to pursue, given the goal of improving healthcare …
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Webinar Recording Available: State Approaches to Mitigating Health Provider Consolidation and Its Effects on Prices
Amy Y. Gu, Managing Editor October 21, 2021
On October 21, the Milbank Memorial Fund and the Source on Healthcare Price and Competition hosted a webinar on steps that states are taking to foster more competitive health care markets and lower health care prices, featuring The Source Senior Health Policy Researcher Katie Gudiksen and state regulators from Connecticut and Oregon. The recording is now available to watch for free: Watch Recording Download Powerpoint Presentation (Katie Gudiksen) For more information, check out the 3-part Milbank Memorial Bank series authored by the Source team. The first brief called for collaboration of state and …
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Join a Webinar on State Approaches to Mitigating Health Provider Consolidation and Its Effects on Prices
Amy Y. Gu, Managing Editor October 7, 2021
Increasingly, hospitals have merged to form dominant health systems that can exert market power and charge anticompetitive prices that increase health care prices and burden the economy. A recent series of Milbank Memorial Fund issue briefs by researchers from the Source for Healthcare Price on Competition identified specific state policies and practices that can deter health care provider concentration, including improved merger review, oversight of anticompetitive conduct, and bans on potentially anticompetitive contract terms that apply to health insurers and providers. On October 21 at 3 p.m., ET, the Milbank …
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The Source Team Co-Authors NEJM Article on State Public Option Plans
Amy Y. Gu, Managing Editor September 16, 2021
As states like Nevada, Colorado, and Washington push forward with their state public option efforts, a new article in New England Journal of Medicine, co-authored by Erin Fuse Brown and The Source’s Katie Gudiksen and Jaime King, takes a closer look at the key provisions of each of the plans. The article discusses potential challenges to these state public option plans and most importantly, whether they can effectively improve healthcare coverage and affordability. Listen to Erin Fuse Brown discuss lessons from these states in a podcast for NEJM.
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The Source Contributes to Model State Legislation to Prohibit Anticompetitive Healthcare Contracts
Amy Y. Gu, Managing Editor April 13, 2021
In connection with the Source’s research and findings on anticompetitive contract terms, Senior Health Policy Researcher Katie Gudiksen co-authored the NASHP model legislation for states to rein in the use of these contract terms, including all-or-nothing, most-favored nation, anti-steering/anti-tiering, and gag clauses. A companion report, A Tool for States to Address Health Care Consolidation: Prohibiting Anticompetitive Health Plan Contracts, further details the contract terms and how the model act can give states essential tools to create a more level playing field and help rein in rising health care costs. For …
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The Source Commissioned for Policy Analysis of Rhode Island Health System Consolidation
Amy Y. Gu, Managing Editor April 12, 2021
As an extension of the Source’s research and work on provider market consolidation, the Milbank Memorial Fund commissioned the Source team to conduct an in-depth policy analysis of health system consolidation in Rhode Island and provide legal and regulatory options for Rhode Island state officials to address the impacts of consolidation. Executive Director Jaime King, Senior Health Policy Researchers Robert Murray and Katie Gudiksen, and Source Advisory Board Member Bob Berenson of the Urban Institute created a detailed presentation that first provides an overview of Rhode Island’s provider markets and …
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The Petris Center Highlights Research Collaborations with The Source
Amy Y. Gu, Managing Editor March 11, 2021
The Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, in its annual newsletter published this month, highlights many of the research collaborations with The Source in 2020 and 2021. Among the work are two studies on market consolidation and competition, one of which examines the impact of state merger review and the use of anticompetitive contract clauses on healthcare prices, quality and premiums (both research findings are published on The Source). Another ongoing project seeks to determine the size and scope of cross-market hospital and physician organization …
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