Andrea P Chung, Ph.D.

Andrea P. Chung, Ph.D. is an expert in health and industrial organization economics with a specialty in litigation consulting focusing on analyzing healthcare markets and competition. Dr. Chung’s expertise includes advanced modeling of healthcare markets, impact analysis, program evaluation, quality measurement and payment reform. Throughout her career, she has worked on behalf of hospital systems, healthcare provider organizations, health insurance plans and healthcare governmental organizations.

Dr. Chung’s experience includes economic analysis in areas of antitrust and competition and Section 5 unfair trade practices. Her experience includes presenting to the FTC and state attorney generals’ offices and litigation consulting support on matters related to contractual disputes and class certification proceedings in healthcare. Her experience also includes providing economic analysis in federal and state reviews of healthcare-related mergers and acquisitions for hospital systems, as well as providing economic advisory services and analysis on the community impacts of hospital closures in major regulatory proceedings for governmental agencies. She has also worked on behalf of national associations for health insurers and hospital associations, providing economic consulting analyses on a variety of policy topics.

Dr. Chung also has experience using mixed methods for program evaluation, policy impact analysis and advanced econometric modeling. She has conducted research to assess the impact of alternative payment models for the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”). Her projects have included analyses to evaluate the impact of service line expansions for rural hospitals to inform potential rural hospital payment policies and evaluation of the performance of hospices, their market expansion and competitive actions. Her research on providers includes econometric analyses of factors predicting hospital entry and exit decisions. Dr. Chung’s presentations include Academy Health and the American Economic Association’s annual meetings, and she has peer-reviewed work in the Review of Economics and Statistics.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Dr. Chung served as an economist at major healthcare consulting firms. Her projects included governmental quality programs of providers, including payment system reform for inpatient rehabilitation facilities and a national hospice study, quantitative analyses on CMS projects including total program impacts and Medicare cost savings estimates of Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (“BPCI”) model and evaluation of markets for cancer services for the Oncology Care Model (“OCM”).