Timothy Snail

Dr. Snail’s industry expertise includes consumer products (goods sold in shopping malls, outlets, mass merchandisers, department stores, specialty stores and via e-commerce; grocery products, beverages, cigarettes, vitamins and dietary supplements, pharmaceuticals, eyeglasses, consumer electronics, smartphones and wireless communication devices, recorded music in digital media), ticket sales and distribution, traditional/digital marketing, retail tracking services, transportation (airlines, maritime shipping, freight forwarding and logistics, automotive, trucking), building materials (wholesale, retail), paper products, mining and milling, chemicals, plastics, oil refineries and storage, high-technology (semiconductors, robotics, cryopumps, passive components, smartphones and hand-held devices, electronics, telecommunications, wireless and wireline services, internet services, computer hardware and software), auction houses, insurance, and healthcare.

With regard to healthcare markets and regulation, his experience involves health plans, pharmaceutical benefit managers (PBMs), retail pharmacies, physician practices, hospitals, accountable care organizations (ACOs), nursing homes, dialysis, home health, medical devices, eyeglasses, branded and generic pharmaceuticals, biologicals, formularies, wholesalers, distributors, group purchasing organizations (GPOs), health care billing and reimbursement (for commercial third-party payors, ERISA health benefit plans, self-funded plans and government health benefit programs (e.g. Medicare and Medicaid)), claims review and appeals, abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs), biologics license applications (BLAs), patent listings and patent settlements, “reverse payments,” “product hopping,” Hatch-Waxman Act issues, anti-kickback issues, fair market valuation, and marketing and sales practices.

Dr. Snail served on the faculties of Boston College (teaching industrial organization and antitrust economics) and the University of California, Berkeley (teaching graduate microeconomics, corporate finance, and applied econometrics). He also conducted economic research for Abt Associates before joining CRA. Dr. Snail has refereed peer-reviewed economic publications, and published works on damages methodologies, and false or deceptive advertising and unfair competition matters involving consumer goods.