Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, is a Co-Founder of Otter Health, an AI-powered utilization management and clinical quality platform built to move payers and providers beyond traditional prior authorization. He is also a Professor of Health Policy and Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), bringing a rare combination of clinical, academic, and entrepreneurial expertise to healthcare transformation.

Dr. Navathe earned his MD from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and completed his residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, followed by a PhD in Health Care Management and Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

A leading scholar on payment model design, behavioral economics, and AI applications in health data, Dr. Navathe co-founded the academic journal Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation and has published research in Science, NEJM, and JAMA.

Prior to Otter Health, Dr. Navathe co-founded Embedded Healthcare (now Clarify Health), a health tech company applying behavioral economics to improve care affordability and quality, and has served on the boards of SCAN Health Plan and Hawaii Medical Services Association.

Otter Health launched with $8M in seed funding co-led by Fika Ventures and Evidenced Capital, with its platform already engaged with multiple payer and provider organizations to reduce low-value care and unnecessary healthcare spending.