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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

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% (Motor vehicle insurance costs grew a whopping 19.5%

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

Health Populi

Increasingly, technology is playing a role in patients’ relationships with pharmacies, whether for e-prescribed refills, apps enabling telehealth visits (including mental health therapy sessions), or live chats with licensed pharmacists for real-time advice.

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How the Pandemic has Impacted the HealthTech Marketplace

Healthcare IT Today

Research suggests the number of Telehealth companies will increase by 29% by 2025. Other investment areas cited by leading companies aimed at employee retention include flexible work arrangements, increasing PTO, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and the offering of wellness and mental health programs.

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The U.S. is a Nation in Pain – America’s Life Expectancy Fell Again in 2016

Health Populi

The report’s forecast calculates that on the current growth path, deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide could reach 2 million in 2025 based on a worst-case scenario. Expanding and modernizing mental health services and treatment in U.S. Rebooting school prevention and mental health programs. healthcare.

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TaaS - Treatment As A Service: Emerging HealthTech sub sector is 'one to watch in 2024 and 2025'

Lloyd Price

This can encompass chronic disease management, mental health therapy, physical therapy, or even medication delivery with ongoing monitoring. Mental Health Therapy: Patients can access a set number of therapy sessions per month with a licensed therapist through a subscription service.

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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

There are numerous facets on employer-sponsored health care to explore in the KFF report’s 220 pages, but I’m going to focus in on a few issues with which I’m working these days: on prescription drugs, telehealth, and mental health.

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Spending on Medicines In and Post-COVID Say a Lot About Patients and Larger Healthcare Trends – an IQVIA Update

Health Populi

Spending on medicines, globally, will rebound this year and rise above pre-pandemic levels through 2025. Between 2021 and 2025, the annual growth global growth rate for prescription drugs spending is expected to range from 3% to 6%, a $1.6 trillion bill for the worlds’s total Rx medicines market.