Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, is a distinguished healthcare executive and entrepreneur committed to innovation and public service. Dr. Navathe brings years of experience in healthcare technology, large-scale government-led projects, clinical care and academia to his board role.
Currently, Dr. Navathe is founder of Otter Health, a mission-driven health-tech company focused on reducing administrative burden for patients, providers, and plans. He is the Vice Chairman and Commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a nonpartisan agency that advises the US Congress and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Medicare policy and a faculty member in the Departments of Health Policy, Healthcare Management and Economics (The Wharton School), and Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
He previously was co-founder of Embedded Healthcare (now Clarify Health), a health care technology company that brings behavioral economics solutions to improving affordability and quality.
Throughout his career, Dr. Navathe has served on several boards. He is a Director on the Board of Hawaii Medical Services Association, The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Hawaii, and previously served on the board of its for-profit subsidiary Integrated Services Inc. He also served on the Board of the United States Multi-Payer Claims Database Initiative from 2010-2014.
Dr. Navathe is a leading scholar on payment model design and evaluation, applications of behavioral economics to financial and non-financial incentive design, and applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence to health data. His thought leadership led to the founding of a disciplinary academic journal, Health Care: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation, serving as its Co-Editor-in-Chief.
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.
