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The Health Insurance Premium for a Family Averages $25,572 in 2024 – KFF’s Annual Update on Employer-Sponsored Benefits

Health Populi

The premium for employer-sponsored health plans grew by 6-7% between 2023 and 2024, according to the report on Employer Health Benefits 2024 Annual Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation, KFF’s 26th annual study into U.S. companies’ spending on workers’ health care.

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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

Health care cost trend will spike up another percentage point to 7.0% 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.

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

Jane Sarashon

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Is there an American Civil Right for health care?

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FTC Lawsuit Against Pharmacy Benefit Managers Alleges Unfair Competition

Compliancy Group

In September 2024, the FTC sued three pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx, for artificially inflating the cost of insulin drugs. PBM services also include negotiating or administering rebates, discounts, or similar incentives on behalf of health plans. PBMs wear many hats.

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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

Bureau of Labor Statistics had good news for American consumers long-facing inflation for household spending over the past couple of years, announcing on July 11, 2024, that the general consumer price index (CPI) fell, lowering real prices for people buying airline tickets, used cars and trucks, communication, and petrol to fill auto tanks.

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

Health Populi

Add into this picture a CCS Insight analyst’s forecast last week that Apple could enter the health insurance market in 2024. Consumers will be facing greater medical price inflation in 2023 for health insurance plans, based on the latest forecast from WTW. Walmart) to do so, as well.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

NATIONAL 5 Stark law issues physicians are closely watching Anti-monopoly advocates urge FTC to block McKesson, Cardinal Health’s big-ticket oncology acquisitions Biden administration doles out $68.5M to resolve fraudulent lab testing allegations Lilly to invest another $4.5B to make breast cancer treatments safer St.