Sandra Chan

Principal

Sandra Chan is a Principal in the Competition Practice of Charles River Associates. She has over 15 years of experience in the economics of antitrust liability, damages, and mergers.

Ms. Chan specializes in health care, including competition between hospitals, physician groups, health insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies. She routinely works with health care claims data (e.g., data from health plans, hospitals, PBMs, etc.) and government health care data (e.g., state discharge data, state all-payers claims data, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data, etc.) She also has experience in a broad range of other industries, including retail, manufacturing, and technology.

Ms. Chan typically acts as a project manager on the behalf of economic expert witnesses in competition and antitrust matters alleging monopolization, price fixing, and fraud. In addition, she has designed and managed economic analyses of the competitive effects of mergers, including hospitals, manufacturing companies, and retail companies. She has extensive experience analyzing large, complex data and has performed econometric analyses in a number of these antitrust matters. Ms. Chan also has designed damage models for alleged price fixing, attempt to monopolize, and fraud cases.

Selected engagements

  • 01
    Testimony in health care breach of contract and damages matter
    CRA experts provided testimony in support of Steward Health Care Network’s effort to refute breach of contract, tortious interference, unfair and deceptive...
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  • 02
    Most favored nations (MFN) litigation
    CRA provided testimony on behalf of plaintiff in litigation regarding a health plan’s use of MFN clauses with hospitals. CRA identified several mechanisms by...
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  • 03
    Marketing of off-label uses of blockbuster pharmaceutical
    A CRA expert was retained to analyze class certification issues relating to allegations that a pharmaceutical product was marketed for off-label uses and...
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