Jane Sarashon

JULY 18, 2024

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% for Individual health plans — increasing from 7.5% for Group plans and 7.5% and 7.0%, respectively.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

More savings would accrue through the quicker adoption of value-based payment models, the authors assert, where clinicians take on financial risk for managing population health. Pricing failure, the second big waste factor, is predominantly challenged by pharmaceutical/prescription drug pricing based on this research.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

We agreed — prescription drug pricing, from the patient’s point of view, is complicated, indeed. “A therapy is useless if no one can afford it,” asserted Cathryn Donaldson from AHIP, the health insurance advocacy group, quoted in the story.

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Health Law Advisor

MAY 22, 2023

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (the “HELP Committee” or the “Committee”) passed a bipartisan bill to expand federal regulation of pharmacy benefit managers (“PBMs”) for group health plans. [1] 2d 327 (2020). [4] An Overview of the Proposed Legislation On May 2, 2023, the HELP Committee marked up S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

2020 marked the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Tia collaborated with Manatt Health and Merrill Research on this insightful research. ages 22 to 45 years old in September 2020. Women identified the top five personal health issues they face as: Mental health. coverage for telehealth, and.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Read more about Northwell Health’s approach to gun safety and health/care here. He led the creation of the Northwell Health’s Center for Gun Violence Prevention in 2020. He and his team will inspire you in a call-to-action on this in your own community.

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