Amol Navathe, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Vice Chairman and Commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a non-partisan agency that advises the US Congress on Medicare policy. He is also a co-founder of Embedded Healthcare (now Clarify Health), a health care technology company that brings behavioral economics solutions to improving affordability and quality. Dr. Navathe is a leading scholar on: (1) the impact of value based care and payment models; (2) financial and non-financial incentive design using behavioral economics; and (3) equitable risk-adjustment methodologies.
Dr. Navathe’s experience spans academics, the private sector, and government service. He has past experience with large-scale government-led projects, having served as Medical Officer and Senior Program Manager for the $1B federal Comparative Effectiveness Research program. His thought leadership led to the founding of Health Care: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation as Co-Editor-in-Chief. His work has been published in numerous leading journals, including Science, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), and Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Dr. Navathe completed his medical training at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and his post-graduate medical training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School. He obtained his PhD in Health Care Management and Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Areas of Expertise | Accountable Care Organizations, Bundled Payments, Medicare, Social Determinants of Health
Selected Publications:
Navathe AS, Liao JM, Wang E, Isidro U, Zhu J, Cousins DS, Werner RM. Association of patient outcomes with bundled payments among hospitalized patients attributed to accountable care organizations. InJAMA Health Forum 2021 Aug 3 (Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. e212131-e212131). American Medical Association.
Liao JM, Huang Q, Wang E, Linn K, Shirk T, Zhu J, Cousins D, Navathe AS. Performance of physician groups and hospitals participating in bundled payments among Medicare beneficiaries. InJAMA Health Forum 2022 Dec 2 (Vol. 3, No. 12, pp. e224889-e224889). American Medical Association.
Horn DM, Navathe AS. Principles to inform risk adjustment policy: reflection from the front lines. JAMA. 2023 Sep 5.
Gupta A, Martinez JR, Navathe AS. Selection and Causal Effects in Voluntary Programs: Bundled Payments in Medicare. National Bureau of Economic Research; 2023 May 22.
Parikh RB, Zhang Y, Kolla L, Chivers C, Courtright KR, Zhu J, Chen J, Navathe AS. Performance drift in a mortality prediction algorithm among patients with cancer during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2023 Feb 1;30(2):348-54.
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