Erin C. Fuse Brown, J.D., M.P.H., is a Professor of Health Services, Policy & Management with the Center at Brown University School of Public Health and a faculty member of the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research. She specializes in health law and policy and legal translation of health services research. Her research focuses on health care finance, competition policy, consolidation, private equity investment, corporatization, regulation, consumer protection, and cost-control. Professor Fuse Brown’s work has influenced health policy at the state and national levels. She has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Federal Trade Commission, and state legislative committees, and she has consulted with the National Academy for State Health Policy, Milbank Memorial Fund, and federal and state policymakers on legal and policy strategies to protect health care consumers, control health care costs, and address health care consolidation. Prior to coming to Brown, she was the Catherine C. Henson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Health & Society at Georgia State University College of Law. She received a J.D. from Georgetown University, an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.
| "2025 Medicare Advantage Advance Notice: Small Changes, Missed Opportunities." Forefront Group, 2024. |
| Murray, Roslyn C., Meyers, David J., Fuse Brown, Erin C, Williams, Travis C., Ryan, Andrew M. "Association Between the Medicare Advantage Quartile Adjustment System and Plan Behavior and Enrollment." JAMA Health Forum, vol. 5, no. 1, 2024, pp. e234822. |
| "California’s Failed Bid To Regulate Private Equity Investment In Health Care." Forefront Group, 2024. |
| Murray, Roslyn C., Whaley, Christopher M., Fuse Brown, Erin C., Ryan, Andrew M. "Hospital Payment Caps Could Save State Employee Health Plans Millions While Keeping Hospital Operating Margins Healthy." Health Affairs, vol. 43, no. 12, 2024, pp. 1680-1688. |
| Zhu, Jane M., Shah, Deep, Fuse Brown, Erin. "Independent Physician Associations — A Bulwark against Corporate Control?." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 391, no. 24, 2024, pp. 2283-2285. |
| Kershner, Stacie P., Fuse Brown, Erin C., Wolf, Leslie E., Lombardo, Paul A., Heled, Yaniv. "INTRODUCTION Defining Health Law for the Future: A Tribute to Charity Scott." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, vol. 52, no. 2, 2024, pp. 216-218. |
| "Lessons From Oregon’s Attempt To Strengthen The 'Corporate Practice Of Medicine' Ban." Forefront Group, 2024. |
| Rooke-Ley, Hayden, Shah, Soleil, Fuse Brown, Erin C. "Medicare Advantage and Consolidation’s New Frontier — The Danger of UnitedHealthcare for All." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 391, no. 2, 2024, pp. 97-99. |
| Erin C. Fuse Brown and Katherine L. Gudiksen. "Models for Enhanced Health Care Market Oversight — State Attorneys General, Health Departments, and Independent Oversight Entities." The Milbank Memorial Fund, 2024. |
| Erin C. Fuse Brown & Mark A. Hall. "Private Equity and the Corporatization of Health Care." Stanford Law Review, vol. 76, 2024. |
| Singh, Yashaswini, Cantor, Jonathan, Brown, Erin Fuse, Whaley, Christopher. "Private Equity Penetration in Behavioral Health in the United States, 2010–2022." Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2024. |
| Sachs, Rachel E., Fuse Brown, Erin C. "Supreme Power — The Loss of Judicial Deference to Health Agencies." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 391, no. 9, 2024, pp. 777-779. |
| "The FTC's Noncompete Rule: Legal Challenges And Potential Solutions For Physician Markets." Forefront Group, 2024. |
| "The Rise Of Health Care Consolidation And What To Do About It." Forefront Group, 2024. |
| Zhu, Jane M., Rooke-Ley, Hayden, Fuse Brown, Erin. "A Doctrine in Name Only — Strengthening Prohibitions against the Corporate Practice of Medicine." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 389, no. 11, 2023, pp. 965-968. |
| Shah, Soleil, Rooke-Ley, Hayden, Fuse Brown, Erin C. "Corporate Investors in Primary Care — Profits, Progress, and Pitfalls." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 388, no. 2, 2023, pp. 99-101. |
| Ryan AM, Chopra Z, Meyers DJ, Fuse Brown EC, Murray RC, Williams TC. "Favorable Selection In Medicare Advantage Is Linked To Inflated Benchmarks And Billions In Overpayments To Plans." Health Affairs, vol. 42, no. 9, 2023, pp. 1190-1197. |
| Brown ECF, Williams TC, Murray RC, Meyers DJ, Ryan AM. "Legislative and Regulatory Options to Improve Medicare Advantage." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, vol. 48, no. 6, 2023, pp. 919-950. |
| Wolf, Leslie E, Brown, Erin Fuse, Greeson, Roxanne, Hammack-Aviran, Catherine, Hazel, James W, Rencher, William, Beskow, Laura M. "Addressing choice of law challenges in multi-state precision medicine research: experts’ assessment of key factors." Journal of Law and the Biosciences, vol. 9, no. 1, 2022. |
| Ryan, Andrew M., Gulseren, Baris, Ayanian, John Z., Markovitz, Adam A., Meyers, David J., Brown, Erin Fuse. "Association Between Double Bonuses and Clinical and Administrative Performance in Medicare Advantage." JAMA Health Forum, vol. 3, no. 9, 2022, pp. e223301. |
| Fuse Brown, Erin C., Kesselheim, Aaron S., Malina, Debra, Pittman, Genevra, Morrissey, Stephen. "Fundamentals of Health Law — A New Perspective Series." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 387, no. 4, 2022, pp. 372-373. |
| Brietta R. Clark | Erin C. Fuse Brown | Robert Gatter | Elizabeth Y. McCuskey | Elizabeth Pendo. Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems, Ninth Edition. West Academic Publishing, 2022. |
| Robertson, Christopher T., Rukavina, Mark, Fuse Brown, Erin C. "New State Consumer Protections Against Medical Debt." JAMA, vol. 327, no. 2, 2022, pp. 121. |
| Fuse Brown, Erin C., Kesselheim, Aaron S. "The History of Health Law in the United States." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 387, no. 4, 2022, pp. 289-292. |
| Chhabra, Karan R., Fuse Brown, Erin, Ryan, Andrew M. "No More Surprises — New Legislation on Out-of-Network Billing." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 384, no. 15, 2021, pp. 1381-1383. |
| Fuse Brown, Erin C., Gudiksen, Katherine L., King, Jaime S. "State Public Option Plans — Too Modest to Improve Affordability?." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 385, no. 12, 2021, pp. 1057-1059. |
| "The Unfinished Business Of Air Ambulance Bills." Forefront Group, 2021. |
| Fuse Brown EC, Trish E, Ly B, Hall M, Adler L. "Out-of-Network Air Ambulance Bills: Prevalence, Magnitude, and Policy Solutions." The Milbank Quarterly, vol. 98, no. 3, 2020, pp. 747-774. |
| Wolf LE, Hammack CM, Brown EF, Brelsford KM, Beskow LM. "Protecting Participants in Genomic Research: Understanding the "Web of Protections" Afforded by Federal and State Law." The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, vol. 48, no. 1, 2020, pp. 126-141. |
| Fuse Brown, Erin C., Lawrence, Matthew B., McCuskey, Elizabeth Y., Wiley, Lindsay F. "Social Solidarity in Health Care, American-Style." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, vol. 48, no. 3, 2020, pp. 411-428. |
| Fuse Brown EC. "Stalled Federal Efforts to End Surprise Billing - The Role of Private Equity." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 382, no. 13, 2020, pp. 1189-1191. |
| Fuse Brown, Erin C., McDonald, Alex, Nguyen, Ngan T. "What States Can Do to Address Out-of-Network Air Ambulance Bills." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, vol. 48, no. 3, 2020, pp. 462-473. |
| Erin C. Fuse Brown and Jaime S. King. "ERISA as a Barrier for State Health Care Transparency Efforts." Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
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Barry R. Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Robert L. Schwartz, Brietta R. Clark, Erin C. Fuse Brown, Robert Gatter, Jamie S. King, and Elizabeth Pendo.
Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems, Eighth Edition. West Academic Publishing, 2018.
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| Brown, Erin C. Fuse. "Health Reform and Theories of Cost Control." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, vol. 46, no. 4, 2018, pp. 846-856. |
| Fuse Brown EC, Sarpatwari A. "Removing ERISA's Impediment to State Health Reform." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 378, no. 1, 2018, pp. 5-7. |
| Darrow JJ, Fuse Brown EC, Kesselheim AS. "The Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017 - Implications for FDA Regulation and Public Health." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 378, no. 5, 2018, pp. 412-414. |
Erin Fuse Brown is a leading expert in health law and policy. Her research focuses on the intersection of health care finance and delivery and administrative law. She has studied health care consolidation, health care costs, health reform, private equity in health care, Medicare Advantage payment policy, consumer protection, surprise medical bills, federalism and state health policy and ERISA preemption.
Professor Fuse Brown is one of five casebook authors for the 9th Edition of Health Law, published in 2022 by West Academic. Her work has been published in leading legal and health policy publications, including Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Washington University Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Hastings Law Journal, Harvard Journal on Legislation, the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Health Affairs, Health Affairs Forefront, Annals of Internal Medicine, Milbank Quarterly, American Journal of Managed Care, Journal of Health Policy, Politics & Law, AMA Journal of Ethics, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and the American Journal of Public Health, among others.
Professor Fuse Brown’s work has influenced health policy at the state and national levels. She has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Federal Trade Commission, and state legislative committees. Fuse Brown has consulted with the National Academy for State Health Policy, the Milbank Memorial Fund, 32BJ health Fund, the Catalyst for Payment Reform, and individual states on legal and policy approaches to address health care consolidation, surprise medical bills, ERISA preemption, health care price transparency and data collection, and prescription drug prices. She has been the keynote speaker at the National Academy for State Health Policy’s annual conference and a plenary speaker at the Academy Health Policy conference. She serves on advisory boards for the New England Journal of Medicine, of the Tradeoffs Podcast, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Financialization in Health Care research committee.
Professor Fuse Brown has received grants from Arnold Ventures to conduct policy translation on topics including Medicare Advantage payment reform, health care consolidation and prices, and private equity investment in physician practices, out-of-network air ambulance bills, and health care ownership transparency. She served as co-investigator on a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute from 2014-2017 to study legal protections for participants in genomic research.
Ongoing Grants
Completed
LAW REVIEW PUBLICATIONS AND TESTIMONIES (2018 onward)
Private Equity and The Corporatization of Health Care, 76 STAN. L. REV. 527 (2024) (with Mark Hall). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4373557
Are State Public Option Health Plans Worth It?, 59 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. 145 (2022) (with Jaime S. King and Katherine L. Gudiksen). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3813402
Health Reform Reconstruction, 55 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 657 (2021) (with Lindsay F. Wiley, Elizabeth Y. McCuskey, and Matthew B. Lawrence). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3760086
Federalism, ERISA, and State Single-Payer Health Care, 168 U. PENN. L. REV. 389 (2020) (with Elizabeth Y. McCuskey). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3395462.
The Web of Protections for Participants in Large-Scale Genomic Research, 29 HEALTH MATRIX 1 (2019) (with Leslie Wolf and others). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3328892.
The Anticompetitive Potential of Cross-Market Mergers in Health Care (with Jaime S. King), 11 ST. LOUIS U. J. OF HEALTH L. & POL’Y 43 (2018) (invited symposium), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3055919.
Testimony before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights Hearing on Strengthening U.S. Economic Leadership: The Role of Competition in Enhancing Economic Resiliency (June 5, 2024).
Brief of Amici Curiae Health Policy Experts in Support of Defendants, in Association of Air Medical Services v. U.S. Dep’t of Health Human Svcs. et al., 1:21-CV-03031-RJL (D.D.C.) (Jan. 25, 2022) (co-authored).
Professor Fuse Brown held the Catherine C. Henson Professorship from 2020-2024 and won the 2017 Patricia T. Morgan Award for Outstanding Scholarship among the faculty at Georgia State University College of Law. Her article with co-author Jaime S. King, “The Anticompetitive Potential of Cross-Market Mergers in Health Care,” won Best Antitrust and Mergers Article from the American Antitrust Institute in 2018.
Others (2018 onward)
| Name | Title |
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| Meyers, David | Associate Director the Center for Advancing Health Policy Through Research, Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Murray, Roslyn | Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Ryan, Andrew | Director of the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Singh, Yashaswini | Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Whaley, Christopher | Associate Director of the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Catherine C. Henson Professor. Georgia State University College of Law, 2021-2024 |
| Director, Center for Law, Health & Society . Georgia State University College of Law, 2020-2024 |
| Associate Professor of Law, with Tenure . Georgia State University College of Law, 2017-2022 |
| Faculty Member, Center for Law, Health & Society. Georgia State University College of Law, 2012-2019 |
| Assistant Professor of Law . Georgia State University College of Law, 2012-2017 |
| Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, 2011-2012 |
