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Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE)
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Take a look at CHIBE’s publications, which are helping advance the science of using behavioral economics to improve health and leading to discoveries around how our minds work.

Overlap Between Mandatory and Voluntary Value-Based Kidney Care Model Participation and Home Dialysis Use

JAMA Health Forum
September 11, 2026
Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, Yuvaram N. V. Reddy, Yueming Zhao, Yuhua Bao, Jingsan Zhu, Amol S. Navathe

Representation in Medicare’s Value-Based Payment Models

JAMA Health Forum
July 24, 2026
Aidan Crowley; Qian (Erin) Huang; Erkuan Wang; Marcella Alsan; Austin S. Kilaru; Joshua M. Liao; Amol Navathe

The Ambulatory Specialty Model: The Next Step Toward Engaging Specialists In Accountable Care

Health Affairs
March 11, 2026
Joshua M. Liao, Amol S. Navathe

A Machine Learning Model to Improve Risk Adjustment Accuracy in Medicare

Health Services Research
March 5, 2026
Daniel K. Shenfeld, Lindsay Warrenburg, Eli Silvert, Matthew Guido, Maggie Makar, Karen Joynt Maddox, Amol S. Navathe, Ravi Bharat Parikh, Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Transplantation in Mandatory Kidney Payment Models: Understanding the Potential Influence of the ESRD Treatment Choices Model on the Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model

Kidney Medicine
January 1, 2026
Yuvaram N. V. Reddy, Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, Vishnu S. Potluri, Adam Mussell, Joel T. Adler, Amol S. Navathe

Changes in Health Care Utilization and Low-Value Service Use After Risk-Based Contract Adoption in Medicare Advantage

JAMA Internal Medicine
November 10, 2025
Aaron L. Schwartz, Soohyun Kim, Sumedha Chhatre, Amanda Sutherland, Aina Katsikas, Sara Riaz, Gosia Sylwestrzak, Emily Boudreau, Amol S. Navathe

Unfairness toward rural beneficiaries in Medicare’s hierarchical conditions categories score

Health Affairs Scholar
September 23, 2025
Ravi B Parikh, Kristin A Linn, Junning Liang, Sae-Hwan Park, Torrey Shirk, Deborah S Cousins, Caleb Hearn, Matthew Maciejewski, Amol S Navathe

Physician and Hospital Performance in Medicare’s Updated Bundled-Payment Model for Joint Replacement

JAMA Health Forum
July 25, 2025
Aidan P. Crowley, Austin S. Kilaru, Qian (Erin) Huang, Erkuan Wang, Jingsan Zhu, Ayush Arora, Torrey Shirk, Deborah S. Cousins, Kristin A. Linn, Said A. Ibrahim, Joshua M. Liao, Amol S. Navathe

A Physician and Practice Incentive Intervention to Increase Referrals to High-Value Settings

NEJM Catalyst
July 16, 2025
Ravi B. Parikh, Amol S. Navathe, Chen Peng, Qian (Erin) Huang, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Savings Associated With Bundled Payments for Outpatient Spine Surgery Among Medicare Beneficiaries

JAMA Health Forum
July 11, 2025
Austin S Kilaru, Grace Y Ng, Erkuan Wang, Erin Huang, Aidan P Crowley, Jingsan Zhu, Joshua M Liao, Said Ibrahim, Torrey Shirk, Deborah S Cousins, Neil R Malhotra, Amol S Navathe

Association of Stratified Benchmarks With Financial Penalties in the ESRD Treatment Choices Model

JAMA
May 7, 2025
Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, Yuvaram N V Reddy, Yueming Zhao, Nuo Chen, Seojeong Hong, Yuntian Shi, Zhimeng Yan, Amol S Navathe

Increasing screening for breast cancer using a randomized evaluation of electronic health record nudges: Design and rationale of the I-screen clinical trial

Contemporary Clinical Trials
January 29, 2025
Kimberly J Waddell, Shivan J Mehta, Joshua M Liao, Kristin A Linn, Saehwan Park, Corinne M Rhodes, Caitlin Brophy, Catherine Reitz, Deborah S Cousins, Keyirah Williams, Esther J Thatcher, Ryan Muskin, Peter J Pronovost, Amol S Navathe

Paying More for Primary Care—A New Approach by Medicare

JAMA
December 12, 2024
Soleil Shah, Suhas Gondi, Amol S Navathe

Racial Bias in Clinical and Population Health Algorithms: A Critical Review of Current Debates

Annual Reviews
December 3, 2024
Madison Coots, Kristin A. Linn, Sharad Goel, Amol S. Navathe, and Ravi B. Parikh

Early Effects of the ESRD Treatment Choices Model on Kidney Transplant Waitlist Additions

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
October 16, 2024
Vishnu S Potluri, Yuvaram N V Reddy, Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, Chen Peng, Qian Huang, Yueming Zhao, Genevieve P Kanter, Jingsan Zhu, Joshua M Liao, Amol S Navathe

Association of Participation in Medicare’s Oncology Care Model With Spending, Utilization, and Quality Outcomes Among Commercially Insured and Medicare Advantage Members

Journal of Clinical Oncology
October 2, 2024
Samyukta Mullangi, Benjamin Ukert, Andrea Devries, David Debono, Jason Santos, Michael J Fisch, Stephen M Schleicher, Amol S Navathe, Justin E Bekelman, Aaron L Schwartz, Ravi B Parikh