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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

JULY 18, 2024

That positive economic news did not extend to medical care and personal care, the BLS reported, whose costs increased by 3.3% Motor vehicle insurance costs grew a whopping 19.5% growth for group health insurance plans is the highest rate of medical cost trend growth since 2012. and 3.2%, respectively. in the report, FYI).

Hospital

Hospital Insurance Follow-Up Medication

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

JUNE 11, 2024

between 2023 and 2024, according to the 2024 Milliman Medical Index. Milliman also calculated that the largest driver of cost increase in health care, accounting for nearly one-half of medical cost increases, was pharmacy, the cost of prescription drugs, which grew 13% in the year.

Medication

Medication Follow-Up Billing Insurance

Important Updates To Medicare: A Message To Patients

Amber Pharmacy

OCTOBER 16, 2024

It’s important to know about big changes coming to Medicare Part D in 2025 that can help you manage your prescription costs more easily. Here’s what will be different: $2,000 Out-of-Pocket Limit: In 2025, you won’t have to pay more than $2,000 for your medications in a year. This means more predictable costs throughout the year.

Insurance

Insurance Medication

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

Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Another way to reduce costs of administration in health care operations is to move from paper to electronic formats — long overdue in the eyes of patients who are increasingly dealing with medical bill paying as payers for out-of-pocket expenses. Banks experience. The chart here illustrates U.S. AI can help here, too.

Billing

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Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

.” The second chart, pictured here from the report, tells us that most health consumers are aware that pharmacists can provide immunizations (79%), give tips for saving prescription drug costs (72%), counsel on therapeutic alternatives (69%), and educate on medical conditions (65%).

Patient Satisfaction

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Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act: Comprehensive Final Rule Expected in 2024

Healthcare Law Insights blog

MARCH 12, 2024

5] MHPAEA requires covered individual and group health plans and issuers of health insurance (collectively “Health Plans”) to collect and evaluate data and address the material differences between access to MH/SUD benefits when compared to medical/surgical benefits. 1] Substance Abuse Mental Health Servs. 2020), [link]. [2]

Documentation

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Most U.S. Physicians, Burned Out, Favor A Flavor of Single Payer Health System

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

But consider the statistic that, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, there will be a shortage of 65,500 physicians expected in 2020, and 90,400 in 2025. Across political party, most Americans also favor some flavor of universal health insurance. This is sobering through just the N=1 physician lens.

Insurance

Insurance Patient Care Medication

Home Is Where the Health Is: An Update on Connectivity, Food, and Retail

Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This has happened across many stakeholders in the evolving health/care ecosystem of suppliers, including hospital systems, health plans, grocery chains, retail pharmacy, consumer technology, digital health and tech-enabled providers, pharma and medical supply companies. Why, that’s just some months away from “now.”

Acute Care

Acute Care Hospital Long Term Care Insurance

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

Sensible Medicine

JULY 30, 2024

A pretty good portion of what we post on Sensible Medicine could be considered critical appraisal of the medical literature. Thus, it was an easy decision when a group of medical students asked if we would consider posting an appraisal that came out of their journal club. You also get a chance to appraise the appraisers.

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The Road to Becoming an FNP

Minority Nurse

APRIL 22, 2024

While there are many available NP career choices, the family nurse practitioner (FNP) is a trendy option among nurses seeking to become primary care providers with the authority to diagnose illnesses, order diagnostic tests, prescribe medications, and manage the care of patients across the lifespan.

Certification

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

It feels like the vision industry is at an inflection point at this moment, I intuited during yesterday’s convening of Decoding the Consumer: The new science of customer behavior, the theme of the 13th annual global leadership summit hosted by Vision Monday, a program of Jobson Medical Information which is part of the WebMD family.

HIPAA

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Why Successful Integrated Care Management Matters

Relias

JUNE 28, 2023

Integrated care is a best practice model that combines evidence-based medical and behavioral healthcare services at one point of entry. The main purpose is to effectively address and treat co-occurring and chronic mental health, substance use, and medical disorders. This model of care takes place in a variety of settings and locations.

Follow-Up

Follow-Up Appointments Collaboration Best Practices

Understanding the New Mental Health Parity Rule: Implications for Behavioral Health Practices

Valant

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Biden administration announced a finalized Mental Health Parity Rule on September 9, 2024, bringing significant changes to how insurers cover mental health care. Most provisions of the rule will take effect on January 1, 2025, with some to be phased in by 2026.

Documentation

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Digital Health: There is No Exit

The Healthcare Blog

JULY 14, 2024

There is no such thing as a profitable public digital health company in the mainstream of care delivery or even insurance–unless of course you count Optum. It says it’ll be profitable in 2025, and has Elevance as its biggest client. Which means there’s almost certainly no profitable VC-backed private company either.

Huddles/Rounds

Huddles/Rounds Follow-Up Insurance Diagnostics

2023 Healthcare Trends: Are You Ready?

Relias

JANUARY 16, 2023

A McKinsey & Company survey shows that up to $265 billion worth of care services could shift from traditional healthcare facilities to the home by 2025. According to a study conducted by Coverys, a Boston-based insurance company, less than 20% of Medicare spending is value-based. Home-based care is growing.

Acute Care

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The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We can turn now to the Global Wellness Institute’s latest forecast on the world market for wellness, which GWI expects will hit a $7 trillion market in 2025. These sources are more likely to be search engines than insurance sites, hospital sites, or pharma sites.

Insurance

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What the Health System Can Expect from a Second Trump Term

The Healthcare Blog

AUGUST 5, 2024

Trump is committed to reauthorizing the individual tax cuts from his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act which are scheduled to expire in 2025, which would add $3.3 Medicare plus Medicaid) population), as well as cost sharing and an voucher option to purchase private insurance (!?) trillion to the deficit over the next ten years. That was it!

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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

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

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Important Updates To Medicare: A Message To Patients

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

Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act: Comprehensive Final Rule Expected in 2024

Most U.S. Physicians, Burned Out, Favor A Flavor of Single Payer Health System

Home Is Where the Health Is: An Update on Connectivity, Food, and Retail

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

The Road to Becoming an FNP

Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Why Successful Integrated Care Management Matters

Understanding the New Mental Health Parity Rule: Implications for Behavioral Health Practices

Digital Health: There is No Exit

2023 Healthcare Trends: Are You Ready?

The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

What the Health System Can Expect from a Second Trump Term

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