Hospital Consolidation Across Geographic Markets: Insights from Market Participants on Mechanisms for Price Increases

Katherine L. Gudiksen, Ph.D., M.A, is the Executive Editor at The Source on Healthcare Price and Competition at the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco. Dr. Gudiksen's research focuses on state policies to mitigate harms from health care consolidation and evaluating the options for states to regulate some health care prices. She has written model legislation and testified in state legislatures about potential harms from consolidation. She earned her doctorate in chemistry from Harvard University and a Masters in Health Policy and Law from the UCSF and UC Law SF.

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Andréa E. Caballero is the Vice President of Policy for Catalyst for Payment Reform. Andréa is a national expert who specializes in measuring payment reform at the state and national level and performing qualitative and quantitative policy assessments of states. Andréa possesses deep knowledge of a range of policy issues, including policies that address commercial health care prices, market consolidation, and anti-competitive practices. Andréa joined CPR after spending 15 years working on state and federal public policy issues for large, national health plans.

Paul Ginsburg is Professor of the Practice of Health Policy at the Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California and Senior Scholar at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. He served as Vice Chair on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). He founded and led the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) for 19 years. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. He was named eight times to Modern Healthcare's “100 Most Influential Persons in Health Care.” He earned his doctorate in economics from Harvard University.

Bruce Allain, JD is a state health policy expert, having spent twenty years working with medical specialist associations and the health insurance industry on state legislative and regulatory issues. Bruce currently serves as the Managing Editor for The Source on Healthcare Price & Competition.

Thomas (Tim) Greaney, JD, is Emeritus Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law where he served as Director of the Center for Health Law Studies. Currently he is Research Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco. Before entering academia, he served as an Assistant Chief in the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, has been named Health Law Professor of the Year by the American Society of Law and Medicine and has been a Fulbright Fellow in Brussels, Belgium. He received his B.A. magna cum laude from Wesleyan University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Brent D. Fulton, Ph.D., MBA, is Associate Research Professor of Health Economics and Policy and Associate Director of the Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare in the School of Public Health at University of California, Berkeley. Professor Fulton's research examines how markets and regulation can improve the delivery of healthcare, including its cost, quality, and access. He teaches health economics in Berkeley's Online MPH program and to undergraduates. His doctorate is in public policy analysis from Pardee RAND Graduate School and his MBA is from University of California, Los Angeles.