Accountable Care Organizations in California: Market Forces at Work?

Christopher Whaley is a research economist at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. He received his PhD in health services and policy analysis from UC Berkeley in 2015. His primary research interests include price transparency and consumer information, health insurance plan design, and provider competition.

H. E. Frech III is professor of economics in the College of Letters and Science and also professor of technology management in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard University; at Curtin University in Perth, Australia; and at the University of Chicago. He has been an adjunct professor at Sciences Po in Paris and at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is a member of the advisory board, and an affiliated faculty member, of the Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his BS in industrial engineering from the University of Missouri and his MA and PhD in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Frech's research and teaching interests are in the broad area of applied microeconomics, both theoretical and empirical.

Richard M. Scheffler is distinguished professor of health economics and public policy at the School of Public Health and the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also director of the Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare. Scheffler has published over two hundred papers and has edited and written twelve books. He is cochair of the Berkeley Forum for Improving California's Healthcare Delivery System and the lead author of the Berkeley Forum Report. He is also currently editing a three-volume handbook series on global health economics and public policy for World Scientific Publishing.