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.
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Speaking
Bundled Payments: The Path Forward
This virtual event will bring together thought leaders, policymakers, and providers, to review the current evidence and best practices around bundled payments and the policy path forward.
This is particularly timely given the recent Request for Information (RFI) that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued about its next bundled payment model release. The 90-minute event, sponsored by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) and hosted by The Parity Center, will take place via Zoom Webinar. After opening remarks and a presentation on the state of the evidence, invited panelists will participate in a 60-minute moderated discussion led by the Director of The Parity Center, Amol Navathe, MD, PhD.
Good Faith Estimates for Health Care Prices Require a Leap of Faith
AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Washington, DC
The panelists in this session will discuss price transparency in the current regulatory space, which elements can help consumers make informed decisions about the care they seek, and how health services research underlies the creation of good-faith estimates of health care services required by the No Surprises Act and other transparency regulations.
Mechanisms for Organizational Behavior Change to Address the Needs of People Living with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: A Workshop
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, DC
A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a workshop on May 23rd and 24th that examined mechanisms and organizational behavior change initiatives to improve care and better support the needs of people living with Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias.
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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.