As many people are learning the hard way, having health care insurance doesn't always mean good health care coverage. A trip to the emergency room may be followed by unexpected and steep “out-of-network” charges that the patient is expected to pay. Professor Erin Fuse Brown is a leading expert on the problem of surprise medical bills and what we can do about them.

Prof. Fuse Brown teaches courses in administrative law, health care financing and delivery, and health care regulation at the Georgia State University College of Law, where she was awarded the 2017 Patricia T. Morgan Award for Outstanding Scholarship. Her areas of research and expertise include the Affordable Care Act, health care competition, health care prices, and genetic research and privacy.

Prof. Fuse Brown received a J.D., magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center, and an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. While in law and public health schools, she was an editor of The Georgetown Law Journal, a Greenwall Student Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy, and a senior researcher for the Johns Hopkins Center for Law and the Public’s Health. Professor Fuse Brown holds a B.A, magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College in studio art.