Arielle Trzcinski
Principal Analyst
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How Health Insurers Can Regain The Medicare Advantage
For seniors, Medicare Advantage (MA) remains a valuable alternative to traditional Medicare, offering comprehensive, cost-effective healthcare, but policy shifts and market changes have made it harder for insurers to achieve performance and profit goals. Amid declining financial performance, insurers such as Cigna have reduced their presence or exited MA altogether. Humana, after a significant quality-rating […]
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HLTH 2024: Bold Commitments And Key Takeaways
This year’s HLTH conference embraced the theme of “Be Bold.” Speakers committed strongly to tackling some of the toughest challenges in healthcare, such as lack of access, clinician shortages, and frustrating prior authorization (PA) processes.
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Predictions 2025: Healthcare Tackles Tough Terrain To Reach New Horizons
Healthcare organizations will have a challenging yet opportunity-abundant year in 2025 as they prioritize cybersecurity enhancements and generative AI investments. Find out more in our 2025 healthcare predictions.
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CVS Eyes A Splitting Heart Decision: Separating Its Core Business To Shock Future Growth
A potential split at CVS marks a significant shift in the retail company’s strategy from one-stop-shop for all things healthcare.
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Get Visibility Into Healthcare’s Biggest Blind Spot: Concentration Risk
It’s been a banner year for healthcare, and not in a good way. As a healthcare provider, if your patients had trouble filling a prescription, if you struggled to submit claims to generate much-needed revenue, or if you had to ask a patient to reschedule a non-essential medical procedure, your organization has been a victim of healthcare concentration risk.
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CX Platforms For Healthcare Transform Engagement From Transactional To Trustworthy: Key Takeaways From The Forrester Wave™
Healthcare providers and health insurers are exhausted from point-solution fatigue. Narrow focus on the “digital front door” in healthcare has yielded some success on customer acquisition but left much to be desired on the trust frontier. To earn trust, healthcare organizations (HCOs) must create value with customers. To create value, HCOs need to curate personalized […]
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The PBM Paradox: Catalysts Of Concentration Risk In The Healthcare Ecosystem
A recent study by the American Medical Association (AMA) noted that just four firms dominate 70% of the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry, a textbook definition of an oligopoly. Learn more about what's driving this trend and what the impact could be.
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US Health Insurer CX Quality Plummets To A Five-Year Low
There’s just no way to sugarcoat this: US health insurer Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) ratings for 2024 have landed with a resounding thud. This is the second time since 2021 that the industry average rating had a statistically significant decline — and it’s easy to see why: Ten brands scored their lowest ratings in […]
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Redefining The Fate Of Virtual Care
Following shocks to virtual healthcare, providers, payers, and partners will have to revitalize this important modality of care. Learn how in this blog post.
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It’s Not A Mirage: We Need A Way Out Of The Medical Desert
All healthcare ecosystem players must act swiftly and boldly to curb the rise of medical deserts before the healthcare system reaches a point where more preventable tragedies sweep the US.
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It’s Time To Wake Up To Healthcare’s Concentration Risk
The US healthcare industry is riddled with concentration risk. Now regulators are getting involved making the pain too great to ignore.
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Navigating The Regulatory Maze: Enhancing Customer Experience In Finance And Healthcare
No regulation was designed to ruin the customer experience, yet poor experiences in regulated industries abound. At CX Summit North America, we'll explore how leading organizations are navigating these challenges.
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Introducing The Customer Experience Platforms For Healthcare Landscape, Q2 2024
Healthcare consumers’ expectations for easier, faster, retail-like experiences are not fading away. It is no longer enough to offer a digital front door alone — healthcare organizations must intercept consumers and customers as they navigate an increasingly complex and diverse healthcare ecosystem.
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Stormy Seas Ahead: Top Trends On The Horizon For Healthcare In 2024
Healthcare organizations (HCOs) are navigating turbulent waters as they confront long-standing industry challenges and broad economic currents. Learn how how HCOs can weather the storm and overcome these challenges.
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A New Year’s Resolution For HCOs In 2024: Take Stock Of Your Digital Transformation Efforts
Learn six categories healthcare organizations can use to assess the maturity of their digital transformation efforts and identify areas for improvement in 2024.
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The Business Case For Investing In Women’s Health
Employers and health insurers can invest now in digital health offerings and tailored benefits that better serve this population. Keep these valuable women in the workforce. You’re not only doing what’s good for business — you just might save the life of someone you care for or who cares for you.
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The Retail Race In Healthcare Is A Marathon, Not A Sprint
Learn the impact of Costco moving into the retail healthcare space through a new partnership with healthcare marketplace Sesame.
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Healthcare Insurers Must Address Trust, Disruptive Competitors, And Platform Modernization To Meet Evolving Consumer Expectations In 2022
The headwinds that rocked health insurers throughout 2021 persist unabated as 2022 nears. As the calendar year approaches its terminus, insurers must remain nimble, deliver on their brand promise, and address immediate competitive threats as legislative requirements loom. In 2021, a plurality of trends emerged for healthcare insurers: Insurers are homing in on measuring and […]
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Healthcare Providers Must Address Equity, Burnout, Security, And Digital Experiences To Remain Competitive In 2021
Over the past year, the healthcare industry flexed its strength and accelerated digital transformation timelines at an unimaginable rate. At this midpoint of 2021, healthcare providers (HCPs) must continue to focus on optimizing their newly adopted and expanded care modalities. They must maintain their focus on agility while supporting their employees, protecting vulnerable patient populations, […]
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The Connected, Empowered Consumer Will Improve Population Health
Learn how creating connected, empowered, consumers in healthcare will address three major industry pain points: containing chronic care costs, keeping individuals healthy, and decreasing healthcare inequalities.
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