Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD

Articles by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD

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

ByRavi 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

October 11th 2023

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.

Physician Practice Variation Under Orthopedic Bundled Payment

ByJoshua 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

June 13th 2018

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

Incorporating Value Into Physician Payment and Patient Cost Sharing

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

March 16th 2018

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.

New Strategies for Aligning Physicians With Health System Incentives

ByAmol 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

September 20th 2016

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

Moving Risk to Physicians

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

November 13th 2015

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.