Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD

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October 11th 2023

Spending Patterns Among Commercially Insured Individuals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ravi B. Parikh, MD, MPP Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD Yueming Zhao, MPH David R. Pagnotti, MS Stuart Hagen, PhD David A. Pizza, PhD Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD

In this analysis of more than 97 million commercially insured individuals, investigators found that the COVID-19 pandemic induced a spending shock in 2020 and that health care spending did not recover to baseline until mid-2021.

June 13th 2018

Physician Practice Variation Under Orthopedic Bundled Payment

Joshua M. Liao, MD, MSc Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD Gary L. Whittington, BSBA Dylan S. Small, PhD Andrea B. Troxel, ScD Jingsan Zhu, MS, MBA Wenjun Zhong, PhD Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD

This study demonstrates that variation reduction is an important, but not requisite, component of organizational success under orthopedic bundled payment.

March 16th 2018

Incorporating Value Into Physician Payment and Patient Cost Sharing

Zirui Song, MD, PhD Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD

Allowing the appropriateness of services to play a more meaningful role in the design of physician and patient incentives may improve the value of care.

September 20th 2016

New Strategies for Aligning Physicians With Health System Incentives

Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD Aditi P. Sen, MA Meredith B. Rosenthal, PhD Robert M. Pearl, MD Peter A. Ubel, MD Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD

This article details strategies based on principles from psychology and economics that health systems may use to align with physicians.

November 13th 2015

Moving Risk to Physicians

Katherine Chockley, BA Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD

The American healthcare system is finally moving away from fee-for-service toward bundled payments, but this transition will only be successful if we shift risk to the physicians.