Michal Horný

I am a health services researcher and health economist whose research aims to improve the affordability of health care in the United States. I study the institutional and administrative factors that shape patients’ exposure to the cost of care, such as health insurance benefit design, price transparency initiatives, medical billing practices, and cost uncertainty, and evaluate their implications for patients’ financial outcomes, health care use, and health. My research primarily draws on large health care claims databases and patient survey data. My current work investigates the effects of recent federal price transparency regulations on health care prices, affordability challenges driven by the temporal concentration of medical out-of-pocket costs, and the financial risks patients face due to uncertainty in the service composition of health care episodes.