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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.

Dec 27 2019

CareFirst, a mid-Atlantic region Blues company, has acquired two Medicaid plans, Trusted Health Plan and University of Maryland Health Partners.

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/mergers-acquisitions/blues-insurer-carefirst-enter-medicaid-market-two-acquisitions
Dec 24 2019

Happy Christmas Eve, Merry Christmas, Enjoyable Holidays, etc.

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Every year I use the holidays to express some sentiment about enjoying family, friends and taking a break from the often-hectic and harrying pace of our lives, and I mean those sentiments very sincerely.  While we may not like to think about it, we each have only a limited time in our lives.  That should impel a certain seriousness in understanding what makes a real difference in our happiness and satisfaction.  The comfort of meaningful relationships with others should be at the top of that list.  So I hope all of you find dedicated and ample time for those relationships.  And enjoy the relative economic security and abundance we enjoy in this country; it doesn’t happen by accident and it isn’t present everywhere around the world.

Dec 20 2019

LeanTaas fattens up with $40 million in new financing for its predictive analytics to help manage the use of health care resources.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/12/goldman-sachs-plows-40m-into-california-predictive-analytics-startup/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=81089305&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_CwisXK41QlIl_6EKEB8YHq3into8AgsPWv2STFKcNffbcYJcL8cJy7lP2kU6PSDdb9ldNoINH6VAOAUboQ0pRLyIxSJqAx-FEDMmqvkJ_ZRjL1Zc&_hsmi=81089305&rf=1
Dec 20 2019

Caresyntax (might want to change that name, a lot of people care about sin taxes), a vendor of software to reduce surgery complications, has raised about $46 million in new financing and used part of it to acquire, Syus, which offers analytic services to hospitals.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/12/or-software-company-raises-45-6m-and-makes-a-new-acquisition/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=81089305&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_CwisXK41QlIl_6EKEB8YHq3into8AgsPWv2STFKcNffbcYJcL8cJy7lP2kU6PSDdb9ldNoINH6VAOAUboQ0pRLyIxSJqAx-FEDMmqvkJ_ZRjL1Zc&_hsmi=81089305&rf=1
Dec 19 2019

NeuroFlow hits a nerve with investors, getting $7.5 million in financing for its platform that helps providers integrate mental health care and do remote mental health services.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/12/neuroflow-the-most-clinical-grade-out-of-sea-of-mental-health-solutions-lands-7-5m-investment/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=81025361&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9faPg_L5qeELd3CL_X5Zt3LpOQjYs05NlpG_Zy-2EumJreJFcFJj_GmU7zBOG0JYJJwcZY3bZGqZKrjZdpAAB54t9pOfvjWl4SbWcx4JGNsgH_UGM&_hsmi=81025361&rf=1
Dec 19 2019

Emilio Health has gathered a fresh $5 million in funding to develop a behavioral health home for children and families.

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Dec 18 2019

Insight Telepsychiatry and Regroup Telehealth are combining to supposedly create the largest telepsychiatric vendor in the US.

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/insight-telepsychiatry-regroup-telehealth-merge-create-us-largest-telepsychiatry-provider
Dec 18 2019

More BS.  A study in Health Services Research finds that giving patients a personal "navigator" and some money to buy wellness related services and items provides only a very modest boost to patient activation scores and self-reported quality of life (I would feel better if people gave me things too) but has absolutely no information on impact on any real health status, utilization or spending effect, suggesting that there isn't any.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1475-6773.13235
Dec 18 2019

Bright Health, a new health plan company focussed on narrow network products, secures an additional $635 million in financing, bringing its total to over a billion in capital.  Be interesting to see if they can ever generate a return on that.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bright-health-announces-635m-series-d-funding-led-by-nea-300975710.html
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