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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.

Oct 26 2018

Ok, we will be a little careful with this one.  I knew ED was a hard problem, but Roman is raising a stiff (or maybe I should say smoking) $88 million to change its name to Ro and add smoking cessation services to its offerings.  Not sure what ED and smoking have in common, but no more after-sex cigarettes for their ED customers.

http://fortune.com/2018/09/18/erectile-dysfunction-roman-funding/
Oct 25 2018

thirty madison

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You will be pleased to know that Thirty Madison is rebuilding the health care experience for modern consumers and apparently is also fleecing modern investors, acquiring $15.25 million in new financing to create a platform to treat chronic conditions, although their primary product to date has been one that addresses baldness.  Hope investors don’t take a haircut.

Oct 25 2018

Aledade, which helps physician practices participate in ACOs, secured $23 million in fresh funding.

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2018/10/17/bethesda-health-tech-company-aledade-raises-23.html
Oct 25 2018

Carepoynt, which offers incentive programs for consumers to engage in healthy behaviors, raised another $5 million in capital.

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/following-julys-seed-round-health-rewards-platform-carepoynt-raises-another-5m
Oct 24 2018

A private equity firm is buying Simplyr for around $550 million.  The firm provides credentialing, provider management and other software to health care payers and health systems.

https://www.pehub.com/buyouts/clearlake-buys-healthcare-saas-company-symplr-for-about-550-mln/
Oct 23 2018

A private equity firm is buying behavioral health firm Pathways Health from Molina Healthcare, as the medicaid managed care company continues to remake its business.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/10/atar-buys-behavior-and-mental-health-services-provider-pathways/
Oct 18 2018

Hero heroically helps itself to a heaping, healthy slug of funding, $12 million, for the world's 1000th home medication management system.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/10/healthcare-startup-hero-lands-12-mln-series-a/
Oct 17 2018

On-demand pharmacy NowRx gets a prescription for $7 million in fresh capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/10/on-demand-pharmacy-nowrx-nets-7-mln-series-a/