Katie Gudiksen, Ph.D., is the Executive Editor for The Source on Healthcare Price and Competition. Dr. Gudiksen is an expert in healthcare reform and the drivers of healthcare costs, with a special interest in market consolidation and state policies to address market power. She has helped draft model legislation to improve state merger review processes and to prohibit anticompetitive terms in contracts between insurers and health systems. Her current work focuses on evaluating the options states have to restrict excessive provider prices, including cost-growth benchmarks and state public options. Her work has been published in Health Affairs, Frontiers in Health Services, the Harvard Journal on Legislation, and the New England Journal of Medicine, and covered by media outlet such as the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. She has successfully worked with various state policymakers and stakeholders by writing model legislation (in collaboration with the National Academy of State Health Policy, NASHP), commenting on bill language, presenting to various state agencies and officials, and testifying as expert witness at state legislative hearings, and informational sessions, including the Nevada Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, Nevada Assembly Health Committee, and legislative briefings in Connecticut. Bills similar to the model legislation she drafted were also introduced in a handful of states and passed in Nevada, New York, and Indiana. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Chemistry, an M.S. in Health Policy and Law from the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), a B.S. in Chemistry and Physics, and B.A. in Mathematics from Hope College.

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