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Healthcare’s Profits Will Be Dramatically Redistributed as Care Shifts to Consumers: Accenture

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Compare the 2016 profit pools to those forecasted for 2026: in the current environment, the profit pools for PBMs, distributors, and payers fall ( colored in blue ). Software and IT, and provider-outpatient which, Accenture posits, will be very consumer-facing and -engaging by 2026. Over the same decade, see who wins?

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As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

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economy by 2026. . “Employer health spending has grown from 6 percent of total wages in 1988 to more than 12 percent in 2018,” driven by healthcare prices growing faster than the general economy, and the adoption of new technologies, procedures, and increasingly expensive new prescription drugs, PwC observes.

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