1. Mary E. Reed ( ) is a staff scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, in Oakland, California.
2. Ilana Graetz is a data analyst at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research and a doctoral candidate in health services and policy analysis at the University of California, Berkeley.
3. Vicki Fung is a research scientist at the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Research Institute, in Rockville, Maryland.
4. Joseph P. Newhouse is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management, director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education, and chair of the Committee on Higher Degrees in Health Policy at Harvard University.
5. John Hsu is the director of the Program for Clinical Economics and Policy Analysis at the Mongan Institute for Health Policy and an associate professor of medicine and of health policy at Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts.