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The U.S. health economy is $4.5T – more than the entire GDP of any country in the world other than China – and is projected to grow to $7.7T by 2032 – more than the combined total GDP of Germany and India. What is society’s return on this massive investment? Not much, according to our latest report, the 2024 Trends Shaping the Health Economy.? The 2024 edition of our Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report explores the 8 macro trends that will define the emerging landscape of the U.S. healthcare system and concludes that the winners of healthcare’s negative-sum game will be those who deliver optimal value to their customers. ?? https://lnkd.in/eqEqsPX3

“Employers are frustrated right now because they’re not seeing the ROI for the amount of money they’re putting into their health benefit plans. Now that prices are beginning to be exposed, there’s a lot of opportunities to steer employees to the higher-value providers.” Our Chief Research Officer discusses how employers are best positioned to demand value for money from the U.S. #healthcare system with Managed Healthcare Executive. ?? https://hubs.ly/Q02TrDCH0

The reality is that the physical and #mentalhealth status of Americans is deteriorating, exemplified by the growing prevalence of chronic conditions, obesity and undiagnosed diabetes and prediabetes. More in #TheCompass.

New this month in Compass+: ?? Reports: The interactive 2024 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report: Micro Edition builds on the findings from our Macro Edition to explore how the trends vary by specific sectors, local markets and patient populations. ?? Guided Briefing: A walkthrough of this year’s 2024 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report: Macro Edition led by our Chief Research Officer. ?? Discussion Guide: A curated list of questions designed to help readers evaluate the trends from a different perspective and assess how they will impact their own market. ??? Reference Sheet: A comprehensive overview of the state of value in the U.S. health economy. ??? Presentation Ready Slide: Sharable slides featuring new insights on the change in overall and infant mortality in the United States, demand for inpatient hip and knee replacement surgeries in select CBSAs and more. Log In to Compass+ or Become a Compass+ Subscriber today: https://hubs.ly/Q02T3WZ30

"Self-insured employers forever have paid premium prices for largely commodity services, and they're fed up with it. And what Hal is commenting on in this report, is the fact the better buying by these self-insurance employers and insisting on #value for the their healthcare purchases has more potential than probably any other force multiplier to change #supply dynamics in the near term." Interesting discussion on that 8 macro trends from our latest report on 4sight Health's Health Roundup podcast, featuring the CEO of 4sight Health, the News Editor of 4sight Health and Partner of Transformation Capital and former CEO of Health Evolution. ?? Listen now: https://hubs.ly/Q02SQ37Q0

Previous report editions concluded that: 1?? #Healthcare is a negative-sum game; 2?? Every part of the health economy –?from payers and providers to life sciences and new entrants — will be impacted by reduced yield; and 3?? The winners in healthcare’s negative-sum game will be those who deliver value for money. This year, the 2024 health economy trends reveal the importance of optimizing #value, as opposed to maximizing value. More in #TheCompass.

"The only real force that’s left to bend the cost curve is the employer. Either the employers are going to solve this in the next five to 10 years or something breaks.” Trilliant Health CEO Hal Andrews discusses some of the findings from our latest report with POLITICO. ?? https://lnkd.in/eQju9P4j

"Employers are better positioned today to demand greater value from their investments in health benefit plans as health plan price transparency not only exposes the wide variation in rates but also the lack of correlation between rates and quality." More on our 2024 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report in BenefitsPRO. ??https://hubs.ly/Q02S1dL-0

"...the data says all the things that we're trying to put into the U.S. healthcare system aren't actually working. It's either driving costs up, it is deteriorating health status. Where is the actual value for the dollars that we're putting in?" More about our latest report in Fierce Healthcare ?

The question that every American should demand health economy stakeholders to answer is this: why is actual post-discharge #mortality significantly higher in the aftermath of the pandemic? Understanding whether this data signal is a short-term anomaly is perhaps the most important health question of all.?More in this month's edition of #Counterpoint. ?