Daria Pelech is a health economist whose work focuses on healthcare prices and market dynamics between insurers and providers. Since joining CBO in 2015, she has worked on a range of topics including site neutrality, surprise billing, modeling the supply-side effects of moving to a single payer system, premium support, and characterizing the price paid to hospitals and physicians by private health insurers. She also has ongoing work on dual eligible beneficiaries, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid managed care. Her empirical work has been published in a range of journals, including Health Affairs, The Journal of Health Economics, and Health Services Research. She has also been recognized by a Director’s Award for exceptional achievement 3 times in the last nine years. She received her PhD in health economics from Harvard University, her MA in economics from Duke University, and her bachelor’s in sociology, architecture, and Russian from Washington University in St Louis.
Daria Pelech is a 2024 grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Data for Action program, managed by AcademyHealth.