Determining the impact of provider consolidation continues to be an ongoing conversation both at the state and federal level. This session will explore the cost/benefit questions related to the subject, and what California policy makers and health care leaders have learned for more than a decade of catalyzed consolidation.

Bill Kramer: Executive Director of Health Policy, The Purchaser Business Group on Health

Katie Gudiksen, PhD: Senior Health Policy Researcher, The Source, UC Hastings College of Law

Chris Whaley, PhD: Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation