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Kevin Roche

The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry through Roche Consulting, LLC. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

Sep 17 2021

We are seeing a wave of acquisitions among health care companies hoping to show that they actually have a business that justifies high valuations.  Symplr provides software to help health care companies with certain administrative tasks and is acquiring Halo Health, which offers clinical communication and collaboration software. No price disclosed but you can bet it was extremely high.

https://www.symplr.com/press-releases/symplr-acquires-halo-health
Sep 13 2021

More insanity on health care valuations.  City Block builds primary care clinics in urban areas.  It just raised $400 million in new capital, with a valuation of almost $6 billion, in what is now a very competitive market among well-financed companies.

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/cityblock-health-raises-another-mega-round-cash-banking-a-reported-400m?mkt_tok=Mjk0LU1RRi0wNTYAAAF_aiwWMZ3PLoddIVpGXhcmT8kLYSg0Ttj5GWNouiYckQK7PJ65lJ6dULY0Qh9fZuitu56W584Ftz0WN_wtfpTVnQMGJ5-txjguPFQ7izZvyymZg5U&mrkid=635530
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