1. Ge Bai () is an associate professor of accounting at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and an associate professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland.
2. Farah Yehia is a doctoral student in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
3. Wei Chen is a graduate student in the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
4. Gerard F. Anderson is a professor of health policy and management and a professor of international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Hospital Finance and Management.