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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.

May 03 2019

3M is taking a somewhat surprising and very large dip into the medical device business, buying wound care company Acelity for $6.7 billion.

https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/3m-inks-its-largest-purchase-to-date-with-67b-deal-for-ipo-bound-acelity
May 01 2019

CPSI, which provides EHR and revenue management systems for smaller hospitals, is acquiring Get Real Health, which offers care management and patient engagement solutions, for $11 million.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190424005300/en/CPSI-Acquire-Real-Health-Expand-Patient-Engagement
May 01 2019

Low-income Americans tend to have a syndrome of bad health behaviors, including poor nutrition.  A study using fruit and vegetable only vouchers did not improve use of those supposedly healthy foods, proving once again what should be obvious, to change behavior you probably have to use sticks as well as carrots.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05405
Apr 29 2019

Savonix Health, which offers brain health assessment tools, smartly picks up a fresh $9.6 million in financing.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190425005360/en/
Apr 29 2019

Babel

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Babel Health translates investors’ wishes and harmonizes a fresh $5 million in capital for a suite of encounter data submission and risk adjustment software for providers and plans doing a Medicare, Medicaid and insurance exchange business.

Apr 29 2019

Meru Health, a tele-mental health firm, has raised $4.2 million more in capital.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/meru-health-raises-4-2m-in-funding-and-publishes-strong-clinical-outcomes-300838292.html
Apr 25 2019

2020 Medicare Hospital Reimbursement Proposed Rule

https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2019-08330.pdf
Apr 25 2019

2019 Annual Medicare Trustees Report

https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/ReportsTrustFunds/Downloads/TR2019.pdf
Apr 25 2019

Home dialysis provider Simergent gets a $2.8 million round of capital.

https://www.simergent.com/blog/2019/4/18/simergent-closes-2835m-seed-round
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