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An Employer's Guide to Consumer-Directed Health Benefits
This comprehensive report explores the legal, regulatory, financial and actuarial issues that employers must consider when empowering their employees to make more decisions about their healthcare and healthcare benefits. The report comes from the Wye River Group, an informal policy consortium that includes PricewaterhouseCoopers.Download an Employer's Guide to Consumer-Directed Health Benefits.
Behind the numbers: Healthcare cost trends for 2008
The nation's employers can expect a return to single-digit increases in health benefit expenses in the year ahead. Unlike health plan premium forecasts, medical cost trends reflect the underlying numbers for actual medical costs by plan design. They are used by private insurers and employers to compare health plan costs year over year, ultimately to set premium levels and design the benefit packages that will be offered to employees in the fall.
Behind the Numbers: 2007 Medical cost trends for employers
Healthcare spending in the US is expected to increase by double digits in the year ahead, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers which released the first reported projections of medical cost trends for 2007. Frequently a source of debate and finger-pointing, increases in health spending have become an irresistible force.
Behind the numbers: Medical cost trends for 2009
From one year to the next, healthcare costs for employers and their workers always go up. Yet, for the past five years there's been some positive news. The growth rate has been dropping. However, that trend will level off in 2009, according to employers and health plans. The new Health Research Institute (HRI) report, "Behind the numbers: Medical cost trends for 2009", addresses the cyclical nature of the healthcare industry and provides insights into the conflicting factors that are contributing to both cost increases and savings. See
Behind the numbers: Medical cost trends for 2009.
Employers Embrace Consumerism to Control Healthcare Costs: New PwC White Paper
With double digit health insurance cost increases affecting the business bottom line, employers are turning to consumerism and consumer directed healthcare to provide a solution. HRI's latest research gets behind this trend to find out how employers are coping with rising healthcare costs and the promise that consumerism may bring.
HealthCast 2010: Smaller World, Bigger Expectations
Our survey group included a mix of policy makers, health system executives, employers, physicians, insurers and medical supply vendors. In addition, PwC practice leaders interviewed more than 50 thought leaders from seven countries at length about future trends and their implications for the industry's stakeholders.
HealthCast 2020: Creating a Sustainable Future
In this groundbreaking report, HealthCast 2020, PricewaterhouseCoopers looks at solutions and responses from around the world to the globalization and industrywide convergence of healthcare. What insights, best practices and policy lessons can be learned from experiences in various countries to create a globally sustainable health system? Who, or what, is driving the solutions?
HealthCast Tactics: A Blueprint for the Future
This report suggests tactics for the healthcare industry to employ over the next three to five years. According to HealthCast Tactics, there are significant gaps between what healthcare executives, policy makers and employers rate as important and what is being implemented performance-based reimbursement, privacy, and clinical excellence. The report draws on a survey of more than 650 top executives of hospital systems, payors, governments, medical supply vendors, physician groups and employers.
Identifying Savings from Pharmacy Management
A new study from PricewaterhouseCoopers finds that pharmacy management techniques are expected to save $1.3 trillion in drug cost over the coming decade.
Louisiana Recovery Authority Endorses PwC Healthcare Report
The Louisiana Recovery Authority Board of Directors endorsed a sweeping health care report on June 15 as a blueprint for health care reform in Louisiana. It urged health care reform leaders to use the reportīs findings in effectively rebuilding and redesigning the vast health care systems crippled by last yearīs hurricanes and created a subcommittee of board members to help guide the progress. The report, by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, was sponsored with private funds by the LRA Support Foundation, on behalf of the LRA. It includes recommendations addressing both the immediate and long-term recovery of the health care systems in the hurricane-affected areas, as well as the redesign of health care systems in all regions of Louisiana.
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Rebuilding Healthcare In Louisiana - A Blueprint for the Nation
Personalized Medicine: The Emerging Pharmacogenomics Revolution
The latest report from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Technology Centre and Health Research Institute provides insights into the challenges and opportunities afforded by pharmacogenomics.
Rebuilding Healthcare In Louisiana - A Blueprint for the Nation
Executives from Franciscan Missionaries Of Our Lady Health System, Baton Rouge, and Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, discuss the present and future state of healthcare in Louisiana and how they have struggled to cope with day-to-day challenges while also preparing for the future.
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Louisiana Recovery Authority Endorses PwC Healthcare Report.
Recapturing the vision: Integrity driven performance in the pharmaceutical industry
Pharmaceutical companies face increasingly regulatory scrutiny and highly critical media coverage of the industry's R&D, marketing and manufacturing practices. This report explores the reputation issues and compliance challenges facing the industry.
Rethinking postretirement benefits
The FASB’s proposal, its impact on companies and capital markets, and the changing pact with the American worker
Straight Talk: Looking at Health System Disaster Preparedness
When — not if — a large-scale disaster hits, Americans expect a carefully orchestrated and sequenced response from hospitals, emergency workers and public health officials. In their greatest time of need, the system may fail them unless disaster preparedness becomes a greater priority. In this StraightTalk roundtable, health industry leaders discuss the steps health executives should take to ensure an effective response to a disaster.
Tailoring the approach: Employer attitudes and healthcare strategies address distinct issues
Employers must increasingly customize their approaches to providing health benefits to the unique health needs and behaviors of their workforce. Fortunately, a growing number of tools are available to activate employees. Tailoring the right approach may be challenging but not impossible. The results released by PwC's Health Research Institute (HRI) and Management Barometer demonstrate the evolution of employer attitudes on benefit design, consumers and quality.
The Trends and Benefits of Providing Healthcare Quality Data
In this latest HealthBrief, PwC discusses the results of a recent survey of top executives at large US-based multinational companies. The focus of the HealthBrief is on healthcare quality data that firms provide to their employees as a way to influence the utilization of healthcare through better education of their employees on cost and quality issues and improvement of their own health behaviors.
Top eight health industry issues in 2008
Health organizations face a pivotal year in 2008 as they anticipate the wildcard outcome of the presidential election. Meanwhile, they must prepare for impending changes — pharmaceutical and life sciences companies are adapting to a new safety agenda from the FDA including the agency's expanded authority over post-market drug safety.
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Top Seven Health Industry Trends in '07: A PwC Perspective
We all know that our health system is ailing. Health industry leaders widely acknowledge that rising costs and unequal access threaten system sustainability, and they point to fixes such as increased transparency of quality and pricing information and health information technology. Consumers have slightly different thoughts about what's driving the system to the brink of sustainability: greed. Perhaps consumers are angry and frustrated. Perhaps they do not appreciate the complexity of healthcare as a business -- facing issues of administrative paperwork, medical malpractice, and the uninsured, to name a few. PwC's Health Research Institute has identified Top Seven Health Industry Trends in '07: A PwC Perspective for health executives and policymakers in the coming year as they move their organizations forward and tackle problems facing the industry.
What works: Healing the healthcare staffing shortage
The federal government predicts that by 2020, nurse and physician retirements will contribute to a shortage of approximately 24,000 doctors and nearly 1 million nurses. Health industry leaders are faced with the challenge of orchestrating care in an increasingly complex and converging healthcare labor market. Seeking solutions means understanding that while the challenges confronting nurse and physician shortages are very different, their roles and futures are starting to converge.
Working towards wellness: The business rationale
Written in collaboration with the World Economic Forum PricewaterhouseCoopers outlines how chronic diseases risk the economic sustainability of an interdependent global economy. Through examples, we demonstrate how effective workplace wellness efforts can lead to solid returns on organizational investments and can be used to attract, retain and motivate employees.
You get what you pay for: A global look at balancing demand, quality, and efficiency in healthcare payment reform
As the pressure to control health spending increases, payers, governments, and providers are compelled to scrutinize the quality and amount of care they'll be able to deliver in the future. Health leaders around the world see the health payment system as one of the best tools in managing this challenge and achieving sustainability. However, with less than 40% of those same leaders ranking their existing payment system as good, every country has room to improve and can benefit from shared best practices. See
You get what you pay for: A global look at balancing demand, quality, and efficiency in healthcare payment reform.
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