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| Thomas R. McCarthy |
| Senior Vice President, NERA |
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Dr. McCarthy directs NERA’s Health Care practice, which specializes in the economic analysis of regulatory, public policy, and litigation matters in health care markets. Dr. McCarthy has analyzed the competitive effects of well over 100 health care industry mergers, including evaluating the horizontal and vertical issues created by mergers of hospitals, hospital systems, health insurers, physician groups, physician practice management companies, medical device companies, pharmaceutical companies, and home health care companies. In numerous health care antitrust liability and damages cases, Dr. McCarthy has analyzed class action issues for health insurers, joint ventures, tying, exclusive contracts, staff privileges issues, exclusions from managed care panels, hospital monopolization cases, and state action immunity issues, as well as regulatory design issues involving certificates of public advantage for state oversight of hospital mergers in Montana and South Carolina. Prior to joining NERA, Dr. McCarthy was a staff economist with the Federal Trade Commission. Before that, he taught at Oakland University and served as a graduate instructor at the University of Maryland. He also served on the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Hospital Mergers.
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