Amol Navathe
Biography
Dr. Navathe is a health economist and practicing physician who specializes in payment model design and evaluation and applications of statistical and machine learning to clinical decision making. His research focuses on the impact of value-based care and payment models on health care value; financial and nonfinancial incentive design for clinician practices; and the intersection of clinical trials and observational data analyses. Dr. Navathe is a staff physician at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center and a commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, a nonpartisan agency that advises the US Congress on Medicare policy. He has served as a fellow on 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 the comparative effectiveness of patient-centered outcomes research. He is also the co-founder of Embedded Healthcare, a company that applies behavioral economics to the development and adoption of value-based care model design in clinical practices. Dr. Navathe has published his research in a number of peer-reviewed journals and is 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.
Bio last updated in October 2022.