Publications

1. Arnold DR, King JS, Fulton BD, Montague AD, Gudiksen KL, Greaney TL, Scheffler RM. New evidence on the impacts of cross-market hospital mergers on commercial prices and measures of quality. Health Services Research, 2024.

2. Teotia A, Arnold DR, Scheffler RM. Association between a capitated, low-cost, county-based public health insurance option and Affordable Care Act premium growth in California. JAMA Health Forum, 4(4), e230488, 2023.

3. Kings JS, Montague AD, Arnold DR, Greaney TL. Antitrust’s healthcare conundrum: cross-market mergers and the rise of system power. Hastings Law Journal, 74(4), pp. 1057-1120, 2023.

4. Fulton BD, Arnold DR, King JS, Montague AD, Greaney TL, Scheffler RM. The rise of cross-market hospital systems and their market power in the US. Health Affairs, 41(11), pp. 1652-1660, 2022. 

5. Arnold DR, Gudiksen KL, King JS, Fulton BD, Scheffler RM. Do state bans of Most-Favored-Nation contract clauses restrain price growth? Evidence from hospital prices. The Milbank Quarterly, 100(2), pp. 589-615, 2022.

6. Whaley CM, Arnold DR, Gross N, Jena AB. Physician compensation in physician-owned and hospital-owned practices. Health Affairs, 40(12), pp. 1865-1874, 2021. Media coverage: Forbes 

7. Fulton BD, King JS, Arnold DR, Montague AD, Chang SM, Greaney TL, Scheffler RM. States’ merger review authority is associated with states challenging hospital mergers, but prices continue to increase. Health Affairs, 40(12), pp. 1836-1845, 2021. 

8. Godwin J, Arnold DR, Fulton BD, Scheffler RM. The association between hospital-physician vertical integration and outpatient physician prices paid by commercial insurers: new evidence. INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 58, pp. 1-10, 2021.

9. Whaley CM, Arnold DR, Gross N, Jena AB. Practice composition and sex differences in physician income: observational study. BMJ, 2020. Media coverage: USA Today, Forbes

10. Scheffler RM, Arnold DR. Projecting shortages and surpluses of doctors and nurses in the OECD: what looms ahead. Health Economics, Policy and Law 14(2), pp. 274-290, 2019.

11. Scheffler RM, Arnold DR, Whaley CM. Consolidation trends in California’s health care system: impacts on ACA premiums and outpatient visit prices. Health Affairs. 37(9), pp. 1409-16, 2018.

12. Scheffler RM, Campbell J, Cometto G, Maeda A, Liu J, Bruckner TA, Arnold DR, Evans T. Forecasting imbalances in the global health labor market and devising policy responses. Human Resources for Health 16(5), pp. 1-10, 2018.

13. Scheffler RM, Arnold DR. Insurer market power lowers prices in numerous concentrated provider markets. Health Affairs 36(9), pp. 1539-1546, 2017.

14. Arnold DR. Countervailing incentives in value-based payment. Healthcare 5(3), pp. 125-128, 2017.

15. Gabel JR, Arnold DR, Fulton BD, Stromberg ST, Green M, Whitmore H, Scheffler RM. Consumers buy lower-cost plans on Covered California, suggesting exposure to premium increases is less than commonly reported. Health Affairs 36(1), pp. 8-15, 2017.

16. Scheffler RM, Arnold DR, Fulton BD, Glied SA. Differing impacts of market concentration on Affordable Care Act Marketplace premiums. Health Affairs 35(5), pp. 880-888, 2016. Media coverage: New York Times

1. Arnold DR, Scheffler RM. Needs-based workforce analysis for investing in health education. In Financing the Education of Health Workers. Singapore: World Scientific. pp. 77-102, 2019. 

1. Scheffler RM, Alexander L, Fulton BD, Arnold DR, Abdelhadi OA. Monetizing medicine: private equity and competition in physician practice markets. American Antitrust Institute, Petris Center, and Washington Center for Equitable Growth. July 10, 2023. Media coverage: New York Times, Washington Post

2. Scheffler RM, Shortell SM, Arnold DR. Golden Choice: California’s public option. April 21, 2023. 

3. Godwin JR, Fulton BD, Arnold DR, Abdelhadi OA, Scheffler RM. Indiana’s soaring hospital prices and unaffordable insurance premiums: causes and potential solutions. October 6, 2022. 

4. Fulton BD, Arnold DR, Abdelhadi OA, Scheffler RM. New evidence about the heterogeneity of Indiana’s healthcare markets: competition, costs, and the impacts of market structure. October 3, 2022. 

5. Scheffler RM, Arnold DR. An evaluation of the proposed USC Health System / Methodist Hospital of Southern California affiliation. April 22, 2022. 

6. Scheffler RM, Adams N, Arnold DR. The competitive and quality impact of the proposed acquisition of Adventist Health Vallejo by Acadia Healthcare. September 25, 2021. 

7. Arnold DR, Khurana S, Fulton BD. The distribution of Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payment Program loans among California health systems. August 3, 2020. 

8. Scheffler RM, Arnold DR, Khurana S, Fulton BD. The distribution of provider relief payments among California health systems. July 17, 2020. Media coverage: New York Times

9. Scheffler RM, Arnold DR, Fulton BD, Peltz A, Wang TL, Swartzberg J. What are the health care costs of COVID-19 in California?: state and county estimates. June 25, 2020. Media coverage: San Francisco Chronicle

10. King JS, Chang SM, Montague AD, Gudiksen KL, Gu AY, Arnold D, Greaney TL. Preventing anticompetitive healthcare consolidation: lessons from five states. June 2020. 

11. Scheffler RM, Arnold DR, Fulton BD. The sky’s the limit: health care prices and market consolidation in California. Oakland (CA): California Health Care Foundation. October 3, 2019. Media coverage: New York Times

12. Scheffler RM, Arnold D, Harney J, Kane B, Linde L, Liu CY, O’Neill L, Qazi H, Vora N. Anxiety disorder on college campuses: the new epidemic. May 23, 2019. Media coverage: San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee

13. Shortell SM, Scheffler RM, Anand S, Arnold D. Sustaining universal coverage through California’s integrated care delivery system. May 8, 2019. 

14. Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare. Consolidation in California’s health care market 2010-2016: impact on prices and ACA premiums. March 26, 2018. Media coverage: New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle

15. Fulton, BD, Scheffler RM, Arnold DR. Testimony regarding Anthem, Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Cigna Corporation. Testimony before the California Department of Insurance. March 29, 2016. 

1. Arnold DR. Expanding medical education and task shifting: comment on `Doctor retention: a cross-sectional study of how Ireland has been losing the battle’. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2020.

2. Scheffler RM, Arnold DR. Response to Stephen Birch. Health Economics, Policy and Law 14(2), pp. 295-297, 2019.

3. Scheffler RM, Arnold DR, Whaley CM. Consolidation trends: the authors reply. Health Affairs 37(11), pp. 1908, 2018.

1. Shortell SM, Scheffler RM, Anand S, Arnold DR. Sustaining universal coverage: lessons from California’s integrated delivery system. Health Affairs Blog. June 26, 2019. 

2. Scheffler RM, Shortell SM, Anand S, Arnold DR. California dreamin’: integrating health care, containing costs, and financing universal coverage. Health Affairs Blog. February 8, 2019. 

3. Fulton BD, Arnold DR, Scheffler RM. Market concentration variation of health care providers and health insurers in the United States. The Commonwealth Fund Blog. July 30, 2018. 

4. Scheffler RM, Arnold DR. Corporations should act as their own insurance companies in our broken healthcare market. Philadelphia Inquirer. September 26, 2017.

5. Scheffler RM, Arnold DR. Covered California is a model for the whole nation. San Francisco Chronicle. January 13, 2017.