Below are all available peer-reviewed research publications authored by Dr. Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD, The Parity Center, and/or our associated collaborators.
Our Publications
Future Bundled Payment Models Need To Engage Physician Group Practices
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure patient-centered, cost-efficient care under the umbrella of accountable care. Additional articles will be published throughout 2024.
Kilaru, Austin S. Crowley, Aidan P. Huang, Qian. Navathe, Amol S. "Future Bundled Payment Models Need To Engage Physician Group Practices", Health Affairs Forefront, April 4, 2024.
The next decade of Healthcare
In this article the Editors of Healthcare, including Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, discuss the past ten years, and the future, of the journal.
Jennifer P. Stevens, Amol Navathe, Sachin Jain. The next decade of Healthcare. Healthcare, Volume 12, Issue 1, 2024.
Association of Electronic Self-Scheduling and Screening Mammogram Completion
In this retrospective cohort study, using a difference-in-differences design, Kimberly Waddell et al. examined mammogram completion before versus after the implementation of self-scheduling. The authors found that EHR-based self-scheduling was associated with a significant increase in mammogram completion among primary care patients. Self-scheduling can be a low-cost, scalable function for increasing preventive cancer screenings.
Kimberly J. Waddell, Keshav Goel, Sae-Hwan Park, Kristin A. Linn, Amol S. Navathe, Joshua M. Liao, Caitlin McDonald, Catherine Reitz, Jake Moore, Steve Hyland, Shivan J. Mehta. Association of Electronic Self-Scheduling and Screening Mammogram Completion. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Volume 66, Issue 3, 2024.
Differential Hospital Participation in Bundled Payments in Communities with Higher Shares of Marginalized Populations
In this cross-sectional study, Crowley et al. examine whether communities with higher proportions of marginalized individuals were less likely to be served by a hospital participating in Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced. The authors found communities with greater shares of dual-eligible beneficiaries, but not racial or ethnic minorities, were less likely to be served by a hospital participating in BPCI-Advanced.
Crowley, A.P., Neville, S., Sun, C. et al. Differential Hospital Participation in Bundled Payments in Communities with Higher Shares of Marginalized Populations. J GEN INTERN MED (2024).
Differential Hospital Participation in Bundled Payments in Communities with Higher Shares of Marginalized Populations
In this article the authors examine whether communities with higher proportions of marginalized individuals were less likely to be served by a hospital participating in Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced. The authors find that communities with greater shares of dual-eligible beneficiaries, but not racial or ethnic minorities, were less likely to be served by a hospital participating in BPCI-Advanced Policymakers should consider approaches to incentivize more socioeconomically uniform participation in voluntary bundled payments.
Aidan P. Crowley BS, Sarah Neville PhD, Chuxuan Sun MPA, Qian Erin Huang MPH, Deborah Cousins MS, Torrey Shirk BA, Jingsan Zhu MS, MBA, Austin Kilaru MD, MS, Joshua M. Liao MD, MSc & Amol S. Navathe MD, PhD. Differential Hospital Participation in Bundled Payments in Communities with Higher Shares of Marginalized Populations. J GEN INTERN MED (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-024-08655-4
Clinician Perspectives on Virtual Specialty Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Illnesses
Tamar Klaiman, PhD, MPH et al. present this qualitative analysis of clinician perspectives on barriers and facilitators to utilizing virtual tools to increase upstream access to palliative care. The authors' analysis finds that clinicians believe that automated referrals and virtual palliative care could increase access to the benefits of specialty palliative care. However, virtual palliative care models should give attention to iterative communication with primary clinicians and the perceived need for an initial in-person visit.
Klaiman T, Steckel J, Hearn C, Diana A, Ferrell WJ, Emanuel EJ, et al. Clinician Perspectives on Virtual Specialty Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Illnesses. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2024.
The role of payment and financing in achieving health equity
In this paper, Eschliman et al. outline the root causes of health inequity and corresponding potential reforms in five domains: (1) the differential distribution of resources between healthcare providers serving different communities, (2) scarcity of financing for populations most in need, (3) lack of integration/accountability, (4) patient cost barriers to care, and (5) bias in provider behavior and diagnostic tools.
Eschliman BH, Pham HH, Navathe AS, Dale KM, Harris J. The role of payment and financing in achieving health equity. Health Serv Res. 2023; 58(Suppl. 3): 311-317.
The AHEAD Model And The Potential To Advance Equity Through Population-Based Care
This article is in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure patient-centered, cost-efficient care under the umbrella of accountable care. This article is written by Joshua Liao and Amol Navathe in response to the latest developments in policy and research affecting accountable care.
"The AHEAD Model And The Potential To Advance Equity Through Population-Based Care", Health Affairs Forefront, October 30, 2023.
Pneumonia is not just pneumonia: Differences in utilization and costs with common comorbidities
In this retrospective cohort study, the authors sought to explore the heterogeneity among patients hospitalized with pneumonia, a condition targeted in payment reform. They found that compared to patients with pneumonia only, patients with COPD and/or heart failure had higher episode payments.
Lee JT, Navathe AS, Werner RM. Pneumonia is not just pneumonia: Differences in utilization and costs with common comorbidities. J Hosp Med. 2023; 18: 1004-1007. doi:10.1002/jhm.13215
Spending Patterns Among Commercially Insured Individuals During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this cross-sectional study, Parikh et al. describe trends in US health care spending in a large, national, and commercially insured population during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors report the COVID-19 pandemic induced a spending shock in 2020, and health care spending did not recover to near baseline until mid-2021, with some emerging evidence of pent-up demand. The observed spending below baseline through the end of 2021 will pose challenges to setting spending benchmarks for alternative payment and shared savings models.
Parikh, Ravi B.; Emanuel, Ezekiel J.; Yueming Zhao; Pagnotti, David R.; Hagen, Stuart; Pizza, David A.; Navathe, Amol S. Spending Patterns Among Commercially Insured Individuals During the COVID-19 Pandemic. American Journal of Managed Care, 2023, Vol 29, Issue 10, p517