A report by PricewaterhouseCoopers said employer spending on healthcare could increase anywhere from 4% to 10% next year. The report highlighted three potential scenarios depending on what happens with the Covid-19 pandemic.
The acquisition enabled the development of Accolade Total Care, a product meant to ease the headache of finding a high-quality physician by making provider quality and cost measures available to both Accolade members and the company's care concierges.
MedCity News was at the Vive conference and spoke with executives who shared their insights for the healthcare industry.
The appointment of Grand Rounds Chief Medical Officer Ami Parekh fits with the company's broadened mission and ambitions to become a health navigator for the employer market.
Michael Yang spent nearly a decade at Comcast Ventures helping to build a West Coast investment presence for the Philadelphia-based company. Now he's charged with a similar mission for a $71 billion Canadian pension plan.
A Kaiser Family Foundation report highlights how healthcare cost growth continue to outstrip wage growth as the prevalence of high-deductible plans continue to tick up.