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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

Jane Sarashon

The line chart shows us that from 2020 onward, the unit cost trend for behavioral health spiked to 2023 from about $100 to $125m and that behavioral health claims as a percent of all medical claims more than doubled between 2018 to the third quarter of 2023. [As

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

When asked what factors contribute to rising health care costs in America, most consumers cite the cost of prescription drugs. Taken together, these two data points demonstrate the potent political import of prescription drug prices as the U.S. approaches the 2020 Presidential election.

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

Health Populi

I had asked some years ago, “what is a pharmacy” anymore, when CVS Pharmacy dropped tobacco from its SKUs and aisles in February 2014, rebranding as CVS Health; and, when Amazon purchased PillPack in June 2018.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

A second story involves a more mainstream drug: insulin, which is used by millions of people with diabetes. Research published in JAMA Internal Medicine in December 2018 found that as out-of-pocket costs for insulin have increased over the past few years, many patients use less insulin than needed. and 300,000 people worldwide.

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Rx 2018: A New Era of Specialty Drugs, Telehealth, Mobile Apps and Value, IQVIA Reports

Health Populi

In 2018, spending on branded prescription drugs will fall in wealthy countries, while spending on specialty drugs will increase, resulting in flat medicines spending. Specifically, $19 billion worth of biotech spending will find biosimilar competition starting in 2018 for the first time. In the U.S.,

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Prescription Drug Costs In America Through the Patient Lens, via IQVIA, GoodRx and a New $2 Million Therapy

Health Populi

prescriptions per person in 2018, two in three of which treated chronic conditions. the annual review of prescription drug supply, demand and Rx pricing dynamics from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. prescription drug market might look like five years from now. Americans consumed 17.6

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

in 2016 was foreign-born, this JAMA article published in December 2018 attested. For some perspective on the Internet Trends reports’ implications for health/care over time, my previous posts assessing the report are linked here: 2018 – Mary Meeker on Healthcare in 2018: Connectivity, Consumerization and Costs.