About
Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, is Co-Director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute, Associate Director of the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, and faculty member in Health Policy and Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Vice Chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a non-partisan agency that advises the US Congress on Medicare policy. His policy work also includes advising the governments of Singapore, Canada, and France. He is also a co-founder of Embedded Healthcare, a health care technology company that brings behavioral economics solutions to improving affordability and quality. 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.
Latest
Speaking
Shifting Sands: Will location matter in care delivery?
Healthcare Unbound Summit, Half Moon Bay, CA
We’ve seen a flurry of digital-first, direct-to-consumer health and wellness services, the proliferation of ambulatory surgery centers, and routine procedures shift to freestanding locations. How will expanding where and how care is delivered improve patient journeys and consumer experiences?
Rethinking Value: Building Patient-Centric Payment Models
Yale Healthcare Conference
A discussion considering alternative models for value-based care that aim to improve outcomes and personalize the patient experience.
What financial incentives, structures, and support are required to recruit safety net provider participation in CMS Innovation Center models?
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
Media
Impact
Policy
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is an independent congressional agency established by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to advise the U.S. Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program.
Private Health Plans and Health Systems
Embedded Healthcare draws on years of evidence-based research studying how using behavioral economics to inform value-based care model design can inspire behavior change.
Academic and Scholarly Work
The Parity Center is based in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania with the goal to catalyze reform in health care payment that promotes equitable health care delivery and outcomes.
The Payment Insights Team is an interdisciplinary team of experts based in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.