An analysis from the Health Care Cost Initiative demonstrates the cost-raising effect of moving services to hospital outpatient departments.
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Medical Informatics, my kind of nice generic name for a company, has raised $11.9 million in additional capital to support its business of using predictive analytics to manage the care of patients in critical care units.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190402005249/en/Medical-Informatics-Corp.-Innovator-Predictive-Analytics-PatientWillis Towers (over) Watson, the large brokerage and consulting firm, is acquiring Tranzact for $1.2 billion, adding the "digital" brokerage and agency to its capabilities.
https://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20190401/NEWS06/912327632/Willis-Towers-Watson-to-acquire-direct-to-consumer-health-care-firm?utm_campaign=BI20190401DailyBriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_campaign=BI20190401DailyBriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ActiveCampaignA recent NEJM study looks at what happens to doctors after they have malpractice claims.
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Change Healthcare releases results of its ninth annual survey of the health care industry.
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Biolinq (I don't know, not sure that cutesy "q" at the end gets you that hard "k" sound you were looking for) has raised $4.75 million in initial financing for it wearable device that provides various biometrics.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190328005048/en/Biolinq-Expands-Series-Financing-4.75-Million-InvestmentA Mark Farrah Associates analysis of Medicare Advantage membership after the annual open enrollment period suggests that the rich basically got richer.
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A CBO report looks at specialty drug spending and price trends in Medicare and Medicaid.
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Xealth is yet another digital drug prescribing platform, which raises $11 million in new funding.
https://medcitynews.com/2019/03/xealth-pulls-in-11m/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=71235012&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_imAnibvlRqyT-5_LIpLINX9hFgxcLJb4tRk2N1bU-B_R6ppGERg8Bol6pHlGNTlDmYPPwzmucwk10W_PX6hQCmu1fN5u9MI2oZTn4IkX3p0fDgB4&_hsmi=71235012There isn't as much evidence to support some care guidelines as you might think, according to research in JAMA.
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Further summarization of MedPAC's annual recommendations to Congress on Medicare.
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Change Healthcare, cobbled together with multiple acquisitions of HIT companies and majority-owned by McKesson, and with the most grandiose name in the industry, is planning a massive IPO.
https://medcitynews.com/2019/03/nashville-based-change-healthcare-files-for-100-million-ipo/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=71059782&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--CRb2VEI5HmjSDy6LJOFgZp-tb8pO4_kisuWGK_uvCd1dadoyvO-Vw8eg-iLW9McHjIvsQJEbY87ESvgfnCpAOnUq1DXlm2sxZKaId6hcUqYfX3z4&_hsmi=71059782&rf=1The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission issues its annual report to Congress, mostly regarding adequacy of reimbursement for various providers.
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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.