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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.

Aug 15 2018

Apparently Alphabet, also known as Google, is putting $375 million into Oscar Health, the supposedly revolutionary health plan that is best at sucking up investors money.  Google will be searching for returns there for a long time.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/14/alphabet-invests-375-million-in-josh-kushner-founded-oscar-health.html
Aug 15 2018

Okay, this is a hilarious story about how health care needs more "disruptive" CEOs.  How about just get some competent ones, especially on the provider side.  I thought disruptive wasn't good, at least for kids in the class room.  Just more nonsense reflecting both the "cult of the CEO" and the supposed value of disruption.  Most businesses that try to do things in a radically different way disrupt things all right, just with bad results.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20180811/NEWS/180809909?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20180811-NEWS-180809909&utm_campaign=financedaily
Aug 13 2018

Carepoynt raises $2 million in initial financing for another of the most gibberish-ed press releases and business ideas I have seen, something about creating rewards for engagement.  There is no "i" in Carepoynt, but there is a why.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/08/digital-health-startup-carepoynt-inks-2-mln-seed/
Aug 10 2018

Hinge Health, which helps patients with back and other musculoskeletal issues be treated at home using an app and coaches (Hinge, get it, cause you back and joints are like a hinge), has raised $26 million in funding.  Don't let the hinge hit you on the way out.

https://medcitynews.com/2018/08/hinge-health-26m/
Aug 08 2018

AlayaCare, a vendor of software for home health care providers, has raised $13.8 million in new capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/08/alayacare-nabs-13-8-mln-series-b/
Aug 07 2018

AdvancedMD, a provider of EHR and practice management software for smaller provider practices, is being purchased by Global Payments for about $700 million.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/08/marlin-to-sell-advancedmd/
Aug 06 2018

Praestan Health, which helps primary care providers manage behavioral health, raised $12 million in new capital.

https://hitconsultant.net/2018/08/01/praestan-health-funding/
Aug 06 2018

2019 Medicare Final Outpatient Reimbursement Rule

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2018-07-31/pdf/2018-15958.pdf
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