Project Description
Jaime S. King
Jaime S. King is a Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. She is also the Associate Dean and Co-Faculty Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Science, Law and Health Policy, the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Masters in Health Law and Policy Program, and the Director of the Concentration on Law and Health Sciences. Professor King holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University, a J.D. from Emory University, and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.
Professor King’s research focuses on the drivers of healthcare costs, with a special interest in market consolidation and efforts to improve transparency in healthcare pricing. She is the Founder and Executive Editor of The Health Reform Tracker, a web-based resource for information and analysis about healthcare reform. In 2015, she testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law on issues surrounding health insurance mergers. Professor King is the 2015 recipient of the UC Hastings Foundation Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship.
Prior to joining the faculty at UC Hastings, she served as a Fellow at the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School (2006-2008) and the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (2005-2006). In 2012, she was named the John “Jack” Wennberg Fellow for the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation for her research on shared decision-making.
Antitrust’s Healthcare Conundrum: Cross-Market Mergers and the Rise of System Power
Challenging Anticompetitive Cross-Market Health Mergers
The Rise Of Cross-Market Hospital Systems And Their Market Power In The US
Can Taxes Help Address High Health Care Prices?
Are State Public Option Health Plans Worth It?
Mitigating the Price Impacts of Health Care Provider Consolidation
State Public Option Plans — Too Modest to Improve Affordability?
State Action to Oversee Consolidation of Health Care Providers
The Drivers of U.S. Health Care Spending

California’s Sutter Health Settlement: What States Can Learn About Protecting Residents from the Effects of Health Care Provider Consolidation
Preventing Anticompetitive Contracting Practices in Healthcare Markets
A Lesson from States: Curtailing Anticompetitive Health Care Consolidation
California seeks more power to fight healthcare mergers
2020 Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws
Perspective: Covid-19 and the Need for Health Care Reform
California State Assembly on Health: Hearing on Cost Containment
Tradeoffs Podcast: The Train Has Left the Station
Antitrust case against Sutter Health due to begin this week
High Medical Bills Are at Center of Hospital Group’s Trial
Navigating Legal Challenges to State Efforts to Control Drug Prices
Sutter Antitrust Class Action Could Upend Industry Consolidation