Looking to 2025: The Stop-Gap Actions likely on Healthcare’s 8 Most Urgent Issues
Keckley Report October 28, 2024
Last week, I wrote about three predictions for healthcare regardless of next week’s the election results:
- States will be the epicenter for healthcare legislation and regulation; federal initiatives will be substantially fewer.
- Large employers will take direct action to control their health costs.
- Private equity and strategic investors will capitalize on healthcare market conditions.
As these play out, eight major issues will get attention vis a vis stop-gap measures reflecting regulator and elected officials’ responsiveness to industry pressure and voter sentiment:
- Generative AI use in Care Management: The tidal wave of attention given AI in healthcare will result in stop-gap regulations in states that disallow AI-derived clinical directives from unseating physicians as arbiters of clinical decision-making. Review...