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Penn LDI’s Amol Navathe Named Chair of MedPAC

Previously Served as Commissioner and Vice Chair

May 26, 2026

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Hoag Levins

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Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, an LDI Senior Fellow and Professor at both the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School, has been appointed Chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). He served as a MedPAC commissioner from 2019 to 2022 and as Vice Chair from 2022 to 2025.

MedPAC is an independent congressional agency established in 1997 to advise Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program, including provider payments and access to care. The Comptroller General of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is legally responsible for appointing MedPAC’s 17 commissioners and naming its Chair and Vice Chair.

Navathe’s appointment was one of three new appointments and two reappointments announced by Orice W. Brown, Acting Comptroller General of the GAO.

In an accompanying statement, Brown said, “For nearly three decades, MedPAC has served as an independent, nonpartisan advisory body for Congress covering the full range of critical issues facing the Medicare program. I am confident that the new leadership, in collaboration with commission members and staff, will continue to support congressional deliberations with robust, evidence-based information and recommendations.”

Navathe is a Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School and a Professor of Health Care Management at the Wharton School. He is a practicing internal medicine physician and a leading scholar on the impact of value-based care and payment models, financial and nonfinancial incentive design using behavioral economics, and equitable risk-adjustment methodologies.

He completed his medical training at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and his postgraduate medical training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School. He obtained his PhD in Health Care Management and Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.