"2017 will be a tough balancing act for the health industry ...

... Healthcare organizations must simultaneously increase access to consumer friendly services while decreasing unit cost. Employers, worried that this current trend is at an inflection point that could turn back up, will demand more value from the health industry. When medical growth outpaces general inflation, a flat trend is not good enough."

— Excerpted from Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Number 2017, a new report from PwC's Health Research Institute.