CRA experts provided statistical and antitrust expertise to a health insurer involved in a class action lawsuit in which plaintiffs alleged that the insurer underpaid claims for out-of-network services. CRA experts filed class certification, merits, and damages reports that demonstrated that allegations of class-wide underpayment were inconsistent with statistical analyses of millions of claims spanning numerous data systems, antitrust harm was economically implausible, and damages estimates were overstated by billions. The plaintiffs’ motion for class certification was ultimately denied by a federal court.
How capacity constraints shape unilateral price effects in horizontal mergers
Examples include hospitals with a fixed number of beds, and hotels with a fixed number of rooms. In the article “Unilateral Price Effects in Horizontal...