HMP Global June 16, 2025
Health care cost trends overall are increasing at an unsustainable rate, with PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, projecting an 8% year-on-year medical cost trend in 2025 for the group market and 7.5% for the individual market. Today’s medical cost trend is an urgent call to action for stakeholders to rethink how they can better manage the total cost of care. One strategy is to reengineer financial, workforce, and business models. Stakeholders should capitalize on each transformational opportunity—from investments in innovation and technology to strategic partnerships—to overcome the inflationary chokehold and move toward a different cost and business model. Finding innovative and effective ways to control cost is the common theme of this issue.
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