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What’s Expected to Drive Up Health Plan Costs in 2025: GLP-1s, Behavioral Health, and Inflationary Pressures for Hospitals and Doctors – PwC’s Behind the Numbers 2025

Health Populi

Motor vehicle insurance costs grew a whopping 19.5% Following the BLS report on the CPI for June 2024, PwC published their new annual report from PwC titled Behind the Numbers 2025 tells us that commercial health care spending is expected to grow some 8.0% and 3.2%, respectively. in the report, FYI). for Group plans and 7.5%

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A 2025 Subaru Forester, a Year at U-New Mexico, or a Health Plan for a Family of Four: the 2024 Milliman Medical Index

Health Populi

This year, I opted for a 2025 Subaru Forester and a year’s tuition for a New Mexico resident living off-campus for 2023-24 attending University of New Mexico. These numbers are for one “average” person covered by an employer via PPO.

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Long-Term Outcomes in Patients Using Protocol-Directed Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer

Sensible Medicine

Commentary The authors conclude that “protocol-directed active surveillance offers a clear set of expectations for patients and clinicians to follow.” This cohort was primarily made up of insured, educated, and non-Hispanic white patients. For this reason, we question whether the author's conclusion is warranted.

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Health Care Finance Leaders Look to Cut Costs and Improve Patients’ Financial Experience — Think AI and Venmo

Health Populi

” And across all technologies assessed in this study, it was AI and machine learning that the health care finance execs pointed to as a top-three investment priority, followed by improving the patient experience (among 37%), and automating business processes (32%). “It is not hard to see why AI is on their agenda,” U.S.

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Why Successful Integrated Care Management Matters

Relias

This means considering things like: Referring working patients to clinics that offer extended hours Referring Medicaid patients to well-known psychiatric units that work well with their insurance And more Building rapport and understanding the patient more fully can help PCPs direct patients to the appropriate resource and encourage follow-ups.

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Digital Health: There is No Exit

The Healthcare Blog

Nonetheless between mid 2021 and early 2022 Jess DaMassa and I were reporting on VC funding in a show called Health in 2 Point 00 (later Health Tech Deals) and every week there were several deals for $100m and up going into new health tech companies. This round was a $50m top-up but it has raised nearly $400m. It kept going down.

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Staff Retention in Behavioral Health: Your Questions Answered

Relias

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) predicts that, by 2025, the U.S. One great way of achieving this goal is to set up one-on-one meetings with supervisors to discuss positive client outcomes. This disparity is part of a larger problem.