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Dec 5, 2023 | 
ldi.upenn.edu | Amol S Navathe
The following excerpt is from an op-ed that first appeared in The New York Times on November 30, 2023. Nonprofit hospitals have been caught doing some surprising things, given how they are supposed to serve the public good in exchange for being exempt from federal, state and local taxes — exemptions that added up to $28 billion in 2020.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
nyti.ms | Amol S Navathe
Opinion|Why Are Nonprofit Hospitals Focused More on Dollars Than Patients? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/opinion/hospitals-nonprofit-community.htmlGuest EssayDr. Navathe, a practicing physician, is a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and a co-director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
nyti.ms | Amol S Navathe
Opinion|Why Are Nonprofit Hospitals Focused More on Dollars Than Patients? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/opinion/hospitals-nonprofit-community.htmlGuest EssayDr. Navathe, a practicing physician, is a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and a co-director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Amol S Navathe
Nonprofit hospitals have been caught doing some surprising things, given how they are supposed to serve the public good in exchange for being exempt from federal, state and local taxes - exemptions that added up to $28 billion in 2020. Detailed media reports show them hounding poor patients for money, cutting nurse staffing too aggressively and giving preferential treatment to the rich over the poor.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
healthaffairs.org | Joshua Liao |Amol S Navathe
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. This article is written by Joshua Liao and Amol Navathe in response to the latest developments in policy and research affecting accountable care. Other authors will contribute to the series as well.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
healthaffairs.org | Amol S Navathe |Joshua Liao
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. This article is written by Joshua Liao and Amol Navathe in response to the latest developments in policy and research affecting accountable care. Other authors will contribute to the series as well.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
healthaffairs.org | Joshua Liao |Amol S Navathe
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. This article is written by Joshua Liao and Amol Navathe in response to the latest developments in policy and research affecting accountable care. Other authors will contribute to the series as well.
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Jul 10, 2023 | 
healthaffairs.org | Amol S Navathe |Joshua Liao
Editor’s Note: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. This article is written by Joshua Liao and Amol Navathe in response to the latest developments in policy and research affecting accountable care. Other authors will contribute to the series as well.
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Jun 7, 2023 | 
healthaffairs.org | Joshua Liao |John Connolly |Amol S Navathe
Improving health equity in the US will require redesigning value-based payment using a set of coordinated strategies to promote equity alongside clinical, quality, and cost-efficiency outcomes. In part 1 of this article, we articulated the rationale and need for these equity-aligned design changes, and we laid out tools for tackling three design considerations in value-based payment: organizational participation, payment rules, and risk adjustment.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
healthaffairs.org | Amol S Navathe |John Connolly |Joshua Liao
Improving health equity in the US will require changing health care payment. But despite the success of value-based payments in resetting expectations away from volume-based reimbursement toward quality and cost efficiency, these arrangements, historically, have not been designed to combat longstanding health inequities.
