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Jan 4, 2025

Editor's Corner—Fierce Healthcare's 15 most-read stories of 2024

Editor's Corner—Fierce Health Payer's top 10 stories of 2024

2025 Outlook: What's driving health equity work amid Trump 2.0 uncertainty?

2025 Outlook: Hospital finances show signs of stability, but rising costs will be a major headwind

Top health tech companies by VC funding: A look at 2024 and the past decade - Paige Minemyer

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Editor's Corner—Fierce Healthcare's 15 most-read stories of 2024

By Heather Landi

Medicare Advantage, UnitedHealth Group, physician pay and reimbursement and layoffs were top of mind for Fierce Healthcare readers in 2024. Major changes in the primary care and telehealth markets also drew readers' interest this past year.

Editor's Corner—Fierce Health Payer's top 10 stories of 2024

By Paige Minemyer

The past year has been a complicated one for health insurers, and our top stories of the year reflect the headwinds many companies faced and represent two unprecedented events that shook the industry.

2025 Outlook: What's driving health equity work amid Trump 2.0 uncertainty?

By Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

Fierce Healthcare talked to more than two dozen stakeholders, including health systems, academics, health tech vendors, investors, consultants and trade groups, to understand what they expect of health equity in the next 12 months.

2025 Outlook: Hospital finances show signs of stability, but rising costs will be a major headwind

By Heather Landi

Hospitals and health systems, by and large, are going into 2025 on better footing than they were a year ago, as financial and operating performances stabilized.

Top health tech companies by VC funding: A look at 2024 and the past decade

By Heather Landi

Fierce Healthcare collaborated with SignalFire, an early-stage venture capital firm, to compile a data-backed list of the fastest-growing health tech startups, based on 2024 funding, as well as the companies that have pocketed the most total funding in the past decade.

Winners and losers in healthcare after averted shutdown

By Noah Tong,Emma Beavins

Telehealth advocates escaped the worst case scenario but those pushing for doc pay relief and PBM reform were left dejected at the final spending bill's provisions.

2025 outlook: Alternative PBMs look to heap pressure on industry titans

By Noah Tong

PBM reform was a hot topic in 2024. That is unlikely to change next year, but it's unclear exactly how the industry will change.

2025 outlook: What's next for Medicare Advantage

By Paige Minemyer

Medicare Advantage has steadily grown over the past decade, and now encompasses more than half of all seniors eligible for Medicare. However, over the past year, the industry has faced significant headwinds that have stymied some of their expansion plans.

2025 outlook: What's next for AI scribes and virtual care

By Emma Beavins

Fierce Healthcare interviewed nine executives on what the AI scribe and telehealth markets will look like in 2025. Executives expect AI companies to consolidate and for virtual care to latch onto the momentum of the technology to transform care.

2025 outlook: Employers face yet another year of healthcare cost increases

By Paige Minemyer

Employers are bracing for healthcare costs to spike yet again in 2025, and that's likely to push these firms to pursue significant changes, experts said.

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