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PwC: Top Health Industry Issues Of 2016

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 12/14/2015 - 14:48


  1. High-profile mergers and acquisitions likely will continue in 2016, with regulators taking center stage in the debate over how consolidation impacts consumers.
  2. Reminiscent of the proverbial story of Goldilocks, the search is on for a drug pricing formula that is “just right.”
  3. Thanks to technology and shifts in financial incentives, care will begin to move into the palms of consumers’ hands, providing care anywhere, anytime.
  4. As security breaches become more common and costly, attention shifts to buttressing the security of medical devices.
  5. Shouldering higher deductibles, consumers seek help managing their health spending with fresh tools and services developed by players new and old.
  6. Employers and healthcare organizations eye behavioral healthcare as key to keeping costs down, productivity up and consumers healthy.
  7. As payment shifts to value-based models, health systems will pursue lower-cost settings more aggressively than before while employing creative approaches to distributing care.
  8. New databases will allow industry players to analyze data from many sources in novel ways, unlocking insights embedded in the reams of information being collected about consumers.
  9. Biosimilars, lower-cost substitutes for branded biologic drugs, are expected to begin to offer some counterweight to rising drug prices in 2016, much as generic drugs did 30 years ago.
  10. The medical cost mystery, health systems dig in to calculate the true cost of services, an exercise that also can uncover opportunities to become more efficient and improve care.


Source: PwC
Source URL: http://www.pwc.com/us/tophealthissues



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