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December Articles & Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor January 3, 2015
Happy New Year! The December Roundup is here to help you ease into work and make sure you did not miss anything during all the holiday festivities! We will first highlight a few articles on the role of competition and antitrust enforcement in controlling healthcare costs. If you read one article this month, have it be this one. In the December 11th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Edith Ramirez, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, published Antitrust Enforcement in Health Care—Controlling Costs, Improving Quality. In this article, …
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FTC v. St. Luke’s Appeal: Video & Analysis
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor November 28, 2014
Last month, a three-judge Ninth Circuit panel in Portland heard arguments in the appeal of Saint Alphonsus Medical Center, et al v. St. Luke’s Health System, LTD, et al. Watch the video of the hearing. The Ninth Circuit In the arguments, counsel for the appellants focused on the benefits that the acquisition, which was stayed pending appeal, would bring to the community. Jack Beirig of Sidley Austin, who argued the case for St. Luke’s, opened by claiming that the district court had not considered the deals’ potential benefits, and assertion contested by the panel, …
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October Articles & Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor October 31, 2014
Happy Halloween! October’s roundup focuses on articles examining hospital pricing as well as the new trend toward reference pricing. We’ll also take a peek at a couple of articles on hospital consolidation. Nothing too scary here! Let’s start with hospital pricing. Erin Fuse Brown, Associate Professor at Georgia State University College of Law, published Irrational Hospital Pricing in the Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy earlier this month. Fuse Brown demonstrates the deep irrationality found in most hospital’s chargemaster charges, and then responds to the numerous claims that hospital …
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September Articles and Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor October 1, 2014
With the end of summer and school in full swing, September brought us a wide range of interesting articles and reports. This month, the Roundup will highlight seven articles and one report on a range of topics, but there were many to choose from, so check out The Source –Perspectives-Articles and Reports to see what else we picked up! Narrow Networks Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight posted an NBER Working Paper, Controlling Health Care Costs Through Limited Network Insurance Plans: Evidence from Massachusetts State Employees, which examines the growing trend …
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Articles & Reports Roundup August 2014
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor September 1, 2014
As a lifetime student turned professor, the end of August always makes my heart beat a little quicker as school returns to session. So if you are also looking for a few things to get your brain moving again after the lazy days of summer, check out these articles! First and foremost, Stephanie Alessi, UC Hastings alum and current fellow at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, published Making the Competition for Healthcare Dollars a Fair Fight: The Role of Antitrust Law in Improving Efficiency in the U.S. Healthcare Marketin …
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Academic Articles and Reports Roundup July 2014
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor August 5, 2014
July was a slower month in terms of volume of reports and articles being published, but nonetheless, some very important pieces came out. So check them out! Shaudi Bazzaz and Suzanne Delbanco for Catalyst for Payment Reform issued their latest report – State Policies on Provider Market Power. Members of the Source team contributed research and legal analysis to the development of this report. The report provides information on state legislation, regulation and other efforts to promote competition in healthcare for all fifty states. The report also provides information on …
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The Source Looks at Federal Court’s Dismissal of Antitrust Class Action Against Sutter
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor July 1, 2014
The Source has been following Sidibe v. Sutter Health, a putative class action filed in federal court in San Francisco in September 2012, wondering whether it would affect the way hospitals contract with health plans in California and elsewhere. The plaintiffs in the case alleged that Sutter used provisions in its contracts with health plans to create healthcare monopolies and charge above-market prices, which were passed on by the plans to consumers. Seven months after the case was refiled for the second time, on Friday, June 20, the federal district …
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Academic Articles and Reports Roundup: June 2014
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor June 30, 2014
Articles and Reports Round Up: June 2014 Greetings! In this installment of the Articles and Reports Round Up are the Source’s pick reads from the academic literature and policy reports from June 2014. Academic Articles Health Affairs’ June issue, titled The Economics of Health Care: Costs, Savings, and Value (be still our hearts), had two lead articles on healthcare consolidation and costs (Ginsburg and Pawlson, and Sage) followed by two commentaries. All four are well worth reading. Paul Ginsburg and Gregory Pawlson’s article, Seeking Lower Prices Where Providers Are Consolidated: An …
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Recent Trends in Legislation and Regulation
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor June 6, 2014
As the “laboratories of democracy,” the states play a major role in creating new laws and shaping public policy on important issues, including those related to healthcare costs and competition. Our Legislation/Regulation page provides various ways to research and track recent happenings in the legislative and regulatory arena. Our state-by-state map displays new regulatory and legislative developments, and these developments can be further explored by viewing the documents below the map, which are organized by topic, including by specific type of statute. Also, The Source Blog will take you through …
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What Academics & Policy Analysts are Saying About Healthcare Cost and Competition
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor June 5, 2014
In this inaugural Academic Articles and Reports Roundup, we highlight some of the most relevant academic articles and reports on healthcare cost and competition published since January 2014. Going forward, we will publish a Roundup each month to highlight the “must read” articles and reports from that month. The Academic Articles and Reports pages on the site also have links to relevant articles and reports dating back to January 2013. Academic Articles In this issue of the Academic Roundup, we first highlight two health services research articles and one …
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