Richard Scheffler, Brent Fulton, and Dan Arnold, all key Petris researchers, have signed a brief appealing to the Court’s decision in the recent Sutter case. It demonstrates the damage done to healthcare markets when anticompetitive practices, such as consolidation, take place.
Richard Scheffler Quoted in Modern Healthcare Article on the Federal Trade Commission
“‘While the paper provides solid evidence that COPAs can raise prices, lower the quality of care, and create access problems, the FTC can’t do much more than recommend that states stop using them,’ said Richard Scheffler, a health economist and policy professor at the University of California, Berkeley.”
Read the full article here.
Richard Scheffler Quoted in Modern Healthcare Article on Hospital Payments
“‘This is a very important study and the data it presents is going to be hugely important in the healthcare debate about competition among hospitals and price transparency,’ said Richard Scheffler, a health economics and policy professor at the University of California, Berkeley.”
Read the full article here.
Richard Scheffler Speaks in HCFA Commission
Listen to Richard Scheffler’s remarks on healthcare spending in California during a meeting of the Healthy California For All here (43:03-49:13).
Richard Scheffler Health Economics Award Recipients 2022
Congratulations to Claire Boone and Maria Dieci for co-receiving this year’s Richard Scheffler Health Economics Award for the best UC Berkeley PhD Dissertation(s) in the field of health economics!
Claire’s research interests center on health economics, health policy, and behavioral economics. She will be taking on a postdoctoral position at the University of Chicago next year. Read more about Claire here.
Maria’s research interests focus on global health and development economics. She will be taking on an Assistant Professor position next year in the Department of Health Policy & Management at Emory University. Read more about Maria here.
Richard Scheffler Quoted in NBC News on For-Profit Healthcare Firms
U.S. healthcare is increasingly pivoting towards for-profit management.
“‘There’s a reason private equity firms have invested in companies staffing hospital emergency departments,’ said Richard M. Scheffler, a professor of health economics and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
‘The money in the hospital is in the ER,’ he said. ‘It is the biggest net generator and a huge profit center for almost all hospitals.’ The problem, he said, is that ‘ER doctors are being told how to practice medicine’ by financial managers.”
Read more here.
Commonwealth Fund Grant Received
The Petris Center recently received a grant from The Commonwealth Fund to study the feasibility of implementing public options at the state level.
Richard Scheffler Featured on KQED Radio
Richard Scheffler was one of three guests invited to speak on KQED’s January 31 podcast. Entitled “How a Surge in Private Equity is Transforming Healthcare,” Dr. Scheffler’s work on private equity has proven far from irrelevant. Listen here.
Richard Scheffler Quoted in CalMatters on Single-Payer Health Care
Harry Snyder (UC Berkeley School of Public Health) advocates for a single-payer system, drawing from Dr. Scheffler’s piece regarding health equity. Read the CalMatters commentary here.
Modern Healthcare Features Richard Scheffler in Article on Private Equity Lawsuit
California’s ban on the corporate practice of medicine is tested with a lawsuit against Envision Healthcare. Dr. Richard Scheffler calls it a “landmark case” with the first real pushback. Read more here.