Amol Navathe

Education

M.D., Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., health care management and economics, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Summary of Experience

Dr. Navathe is a health economist and practicing physician who specializes in the design and evaluation of health care payment and reimbursement models, health plan coverage, medical service and prescription drug pricing, and the application of statistical, econometric, and machine learning methods to clinical and health care decision making. His research focuses on the impact of value-based care and payment models on health care costs, quality, and utilization; incentive design for clinician practices and health systems; health care claims analysis; and the intersection of clinical trials and observational data analyses. Dr. Navathe is a staff physician at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and the chair and commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a nonpartisan agency that provides analysis and recommendations to the US Congress on Medicare policy. He has served as a fellow at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and as a medical officer and senior program manager of a US Department of Health and Human Services program on patient-centered outcomes research. He is the founder of Otter Health and co-founded Embedded Healthcare (now Clarify Health), companies focused on health care analytics, provider incentives, and value-based care model design.

Widely published in peer-reviewed journals, Dr. Navathe is also the founding coeditor in chief of Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and The Commonwealth Fund, among others. Dr. Navathe is a recipient of Johns Hopkins University’s Daniel E. Ford Award for achievement in health services and outcomes research. Previously, he served on the boards of directors of Hawaii Medical Services Association and SCAN Health Plan.

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