We are pleased to announce that Deborah Ann Haas-Wilson who is the Marilyn Carlson Nelson Professor Emerita of Economics at Smith College and a leading expert on health care antitrust issues will be joining the Petris Center as a Distinguished Senior Scholar.
Professor Haas-Wilson served as the testifying expert for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in
the matter of Evanston Health Corp. (Docket No. 9315) and in the U.S. District Court for the plaintiffs in the matter of Saint Alphonsus Medical System v. St. Luke’s Health System (Case No. 1:12-cv-00560). She has served as an economic consultant on antitrust matters for the Massachusetts Attorney General, the California Attorney General, the California Department of Managed Care, and numerous private parties.
Professor Haas-Wilson was also an economic expert for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)’s challenge to UnitedHealth Group’s acquisition of Amedisys, a home health and hospice provider. The DOJ sued to block the transaction, citing antitrust concerns in markets for home health, hospice, and nursing care. After agreeing to a divestiture remedy, the parties completed the transaction.
Professor Haas-Wilson’s current research focuses on competition and competition policies in
health care markets. Her articles have been published in the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Law and Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Health Economics and other peer-reviewed journals. She is the author of Managed Care and Monopoly Power: The Antitrust Challenge (Harvard University Press, 2003) and co-editor of Uncertain Times: Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care (Duke University Press, 2003).
She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and her B.A.
from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.