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Medical Cost Trend: Behind The Numbers 2014
What factors into determining the medical cost trend
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The Massachusetts Experience: Reform shifts the healthcare landscape
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Scoring healthcare: Navigating customer experience ratings
PwC's insights on the impact of the ratings culture on healthcare
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Slowdown in Healthcare Spending Growth for 2014
PwC's Health Research Institute report, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2014, finds that even as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) adds millions more newly-insured Americans to the health system next year, the medical cost trend in 2014 will dip even lower than in 2013.
Despite a slowing of medical spending growth, employers remain concerned about their long-term ability to provide comprehensive health benefits to their employees. Healthcare providers, health insurers and those in the pharmaceuticals and life sciences industries face the challenge of succeeding in an increasingly complicated and competitive industry that happens to be experiencing a time of historical low growth rates in spending.
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Medical Cost Trend: Behind The Numbers 2014
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Aggressive and creative steps by employers, new venues and models for delivering care, and elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are expected to exert continued downward pressure on the health sector. |
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Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Deals Insights Quarterly
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Transactions should trend at an active pace during 2013 as pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies seek acquisitions in select asset classes and medical device and diagnostics companies evaluate new growth strategies. |
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The Massachusetts Experience employer sponsored health insurance post reform
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As implementation of the Affordable Care Act presses forward, questions remain about its impact on employers. The 2006 Massachusetts universal healthcare legislation provides a guidepost for employers considering a path forward and offers lessons learned. |
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The Massachusetts Experience: New wave of consolidation for health sector post reform
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Add the report to the "Our Featured Thinking" with the following brief description: Massachusetts' multi-year effort to transform its health system has accelerated consolidation among hospitals, improved revenue margins for many health plans and nudged providers into accepting new payment models as a way to control costs. |
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Scoring healthcare: Navigating customer experience ratings
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The ratings culture in the US has exploded in the last decade with consumers turning to reviews for dining, shopping, vacationing, and even home improvements. Now, as they spend more of their own money on health and wellness, consumers are beginning to search for rating systems to guide their decision making. |
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Insights on key healthcare industry issues
Insights on key healthcare industry issues
Insights on key healthcare industry issues
Insights on key healthcare industry issues
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