Media and Center News

Below are some of Dr. Amol Navathe's available media features. All listings are hyperlinked to direct interested readers, website viewers, and/or listeners to the appropriate outlet.

Are We Ready to Care for Our Aging Population?
Posted on: May, 2023
Philly Mag

There’s a seismic shift of Americans going into retirement by 2030. They’ll need more medical care as they age — and the resources to pay for it.

Plan to Fix Exchange Risk Adjustment Model Could Come at Cost
Posted on: January, 2022
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This Modern Healthcare article by Maya Goldman, reports on planned changes to the CMS risk adjustment formula for health insurance exchange carriers. Dr. Amol Navathe is quoted discussing the gravity and potential impact of making adjustments to the model.

MedPAC considers one-time funding boosts for Medicare in 2023 due to COVID-19 confusion
Posted on: September, 2021
Fierce Healthcare

In this Fierce Healthcare article by Robert King, Dr. Navathe is quoted describing the difficulties of interpreting changes in healthcare use data in 2020.

CMS needs to get beneficiaries involved in value-based care, experts say
Posted on: September, 2021
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In this Modern Healthcare article by Michael Brady, Dr. Amol Navathe comments on the importance of taking the individual beneficiary's perspective into account when designing value-based care models.

Combining value-based payments can deliver better results, study finds
Posted on: August, 2021
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In this Modern Healthcare article, Michael Brady reviews the recent publication in JAMA Health Network by Dr. Amol Navathe, Dr. Joshua Liao and Erkuan Wang. Brady highlights the study's findings about the additive effects of overlapping ACO and Bundled Payment models.

Why Are Kids With Summer Birthdays More Likely to Get the Flu?
Posted on: August, 2021
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In this podcast, with host Dr. Bapu Jena, Dr. Amol Navathe comments on the importance of flu shots for children and the negative ripple effects of forgoing vaccination.

Physician comp is crucial to value-based care. Getting it right is hard.
Posted on: August, 2021
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In this Modern Healthcare article by Michael Brady, Dr. Amol Navathe comments on the design for value-based care models and their impact on physicians.

One Health-Care Company’s Audacious Plan to Lower Costs—and Still Turn a Profit
Posted on: July, 2021
Bloomberg Buisinessweek

In this Bloomberg Businessweek article about Oak Street Health Inc. clinics by John Tozzi, Dr. Navathe is quoted in the explanation of how the bundled payment model can work to improve investment in patient care.

CMMI's pause on direct contracting a turning point for value-based care
Posted on: May, 2021
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In this Modern Healthcare article by Michael Brady, Dr. Amol Navathe comments on the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation's decision to temporarily halt applications for the Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model and the potential impact on the future of value-based care.

The Next Decade of Value-Based Payment: Insights, Recommendations, and Future Promise
Posted on: March, 2021
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Top experts from Penn LDI and the Healthcare Transformation Institute (HTI) discuss the first decade of alternative payment model (APM) experiments and their recommendations for the next 10 years of APM development. Dr. Amol Navathe details barriers to APM participation as well as noting the lack of APM efforts focused on health equity.