As healthcare trends evolve, employers should continue to adapt their approach to ensure they effectively manage the impact on their employees and business. Dr. Jeff Levin-Scherz provides monthly updates on the latest healthcare developments, with a focus on the implications for employers and guidance on how they can tackle challenges to keep their workplaces safe.
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October 2024
Monthly healthcare insights: Preventive care denials, drug overdose deaths declining
Our population health leader weighs in on preventive care denials, drug overdose deaths, insulin delivery, GLP-1s and depression, and more.
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September 2024
Monthly Healthcare Insights: GLP-1 prices, vaccines
Our population health leader weighs in on GLP-1 prices, vaccines, cancer screening and more.
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August 2024
Monthly healthcare insights: Rising healthcare costs, artificial intelligence
Our population health leader weighs in on rising healthcare costs, artificial intelligence and patient questions, cancer and more.
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July 2024
Monthly Healthcare Insights: Heart disease, healthcare costs
Our population health leader weighs in on heart disease, healthcare costs, maternity care, obesity, and more.
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June 2024
Monthly Healthcare Insights: GLP-1 weight loss study, kidney disease and diabetics
Our population health leader weighs in on GLP-1s, kidney disease and diabetics, cervical cancer and more.
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May 2024
Monthly healthcare insights: bariatric surgery and glp-1 drugs, mammograms
Our population health leader weighs in on bariatric surgery, GLP-1 drugs, mammograms, prostate cancer, and more.
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April 2024
Monthly Healthcare Insights: Medicare and obesity drugs, No Surprises Act
Our population health leader weighs in Medicare and obesity drugs, the No Surprises Act, diabetes programs, birth centers, and more.
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March 2024
Healthcare Insights: Value-based insurance, hepatitis
Our population health leader weighs in on value-based insurance design and diabetes complications, hepatitis C, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines and cervical cancer, and more.
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December 2023
Infant mortality rises in U.S. – how employers can help improve maternal outcomes
Our population health leader weighs in on infant mortality, at-home testing, GLP-1 medications, pharmaceutical patents and more.
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November 2023
Employers remain focused on controlling healthcare costs
Our population health leader weighs in on our recent healthcare survey findings, GLP-1 medication costs, telemedicine data and more.
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October 2023
Finding consistent prices for hospital services remains difficult
Our population health leader weighs in on hospital pricing transparency, disparate out-of-pocket costs for women, vaccinations in pregnancy and more.
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September 2023
How you can help employees as COVID-19 infections rise
Our population health leader weighs in on recommended vaccinations, medical care and financial insecurity, the impact of Wegovy on heart failure and more.
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August 2023
White House announces new mental health parity regulations
Our population health leader weighs in on mental health regulations, AI and prior authorizations, Medicare drug negotiations, exercise and hearth disease, and OTC birth control.
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July 2023
Maternal mortality continues to worsen in the U.S.
Our population health leader weighs in on worsening maternal mortality, problems navigating health plan coverage, medical care costs and more.
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June 2023
Healthcare roundup: Missed cancer diagnoses, excess deaths in Black people, and medication costs
Our population health leader weighs in on missed cancer diagnoses, excess deaths in the Black population, waiving out-of-pocket medication costs, indoor clean air guidelines and more.
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May 2023
Healthcare roundup: Loneliness as a health risk, menopause and work absences, and cancer biomarkers
Our population health leader weighs in on loneliness, the high costs of pediatric hospitalization, climate change impacts on healthcare costs and more.
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Healthcare roundup: Preventive services, high cost of asthma inhalers and low insulin prices
Our population health leader weighs in on preventive services, the high cost of asthma inhalers, a drop in insulin prices and some recent healthcare successes in this monthly update.
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March 2023
Healthcare roundup: Being heart healthy, paying for outpatient care, and 4-day work weeks
Our population health leader weighs in on the value of being heart healthy, the rising cost of outpatient hospital care and the benefits of a four-day workweek in this monthly update.
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February 2023
Healthcare roundup: Long COVID, lifesaving AEDs and the growth of AI in healthcare
Our population health leader weighs in on long COVID, automated external defibrillators (AEDs), artificial intelligence (AI) for healthcare and more in this monthly update.
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January 2023
Healthcare roundup: A focus on rising costs, telehealth privacy and psychedelics
Our population health leader weighs in on healthcare costs, privacy in telehealth and the use of psychedelics for depression in this monthly update.
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