A paper in the British Medical Journal finds some interesting provider reactions to the hospital readmissions reduction program.
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A PE firm is buying a majority interest in Pareto Captive, which helps self-funded employers band together to organize captive benefits insurers. The price apparently was in excess of $200 million.
https://www.pehub.com/buyouts/bostons-great-hill-partners-wins-auction-for-pareto-captive/?email=khroche%40gmail.comAnother study, this one published in Health Services Research, suggests that CMS is paying Medicare Advantage plans too much.
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A new study from NBER reveals what we all might fear--doctors aren't necessarily great at assessing health risks.
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MDClone copies a well-used route to success, raising $26 million in capital, by claiming to create the "first of its kind platform which democratizes data to the entire healthcare ecosystem". Uhh, wow, I think I should be impressed, at least by the level of hype. Oh wait, it uses "synthetic data". Hmmm, doesn't that mean artificial? So you are democratizing fake data? Oh gosh, now I am just confused, but then I am obviously not as smart as the investors who fall for this stuff.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mdclone-developer-of-first-healthcare-synthetic-data-engine-raises-26-million-300906058.htmlA study in Health Affairs looks at the relationship between social and health spending in a country, with a surprising finding.
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A brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Peterson Foundation tracks the increase in consumer cost-sharing for health care coverage.
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The National Business Group on Health issues its latest survey of large, primarily self-funded, employer views on health benefits.
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Nomad Health, which offers temporary staffing services for health systems, wanders into a fresh $34 million of capital.
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/finance/new-york-startup-raises-34-million-staffing-platform?utm_source=modern-healthcare-daily-finance-friday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190816&utm_content=article3-headlineA study looks evaluates publicly available hospital quality ratings.
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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. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
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