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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

in 2024, according to the annual report from the PwC Health Research Institute, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2024. Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. for 2024 medical trend. Health care cost trend will spike up another percentage point to 7.0% saw double-digit cost growth of nearly 12%.

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Zocdoc Learns What Patients Want: Primary Care Access ASAP, and the Role of Women as Chief Health Officers

Jane Sarashon

The CEO of Zocdoc, Dr. Oliver Kharraz, offered some predictions for 2024 based on what the company has learned this year… Mental health bookings are expected to grow in the latter half of 2024 tied to the U.S.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Jane Sarashon

While the digital health stakeholder community is convening this week at VIVE in Los Angeles to share innovations in health tech, NABIP has assembled health insurance leaders in Washington, DC, for the 2024 Capital Conference to focus on major health reform issues that are top-of-mind for health care payors — which in today’s U.S.

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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

Jane Sarashon

All health ecosystem players are organizing for 2024’s national elections. approaching the 2024 November elections for Congressional platforms along with what the next President elected talks of doing to re-build a more resilient U.S. This is, to be sure, going to be a discussion/debate point in the U.S.

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Comments to CMS Guidance on the Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Program Due March 11, 2023

Health Law Advisor

However, CMS’s release of the Initial Rebate Guidances represents the agency’s first significant opportunity to submit substantive and specific input from the broader stakeholder community with regard to one of the most significant components of the prescription drug pricing changes of the IRA.

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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

Jane Sarashon

Add into this picture a CCS Insight analyst’s forecast last week that Apple could enter the health insurance market in 2024. The XY supply demand curve shown above from Trilliant’s analysis illustrates a government price ceiling shock to health care pricing. Walmart) to do so, as well.

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CMS Releases Guidance on Implementation of Rebate Programs for Certain Medicare Part B and Part D Drugs

Healthcare Law Blog

All rebate payments will be deposited into the Medicare Prescription Drug Account in the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. September 20, 2025 The date by which CMS must invoice manufacturers for the Part B inflation rebates owed for calendar quarters in 2023 and 2024.