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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.

Jul 03 2018

WelbeHealth garners $15 million in fresh financing to support its business of operating PACE programs for Medicare beneficiaries.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180628006469/en/WelbeHealth-Raises-15-Million-Series-Accelerate-Growth
Jul 03 2018

Telehealth firm American Well is raising an additional $315 million in capital, for reasons that completely elude me, unless it is to fund the ongoing losses that the company must be experiencing.

https://www.xconomy.com/boston/2018/07/02/american-well-raises-290m-to-go-bigger-in-telehealth/
Jun 29 2018

Premise Health, which operates on-site employee health centers, is apparently being sold from one PE firm to another.

https://www.pehub.com/buyouts/omers-prevails-in-auction-for-pe-backed-premise-health/
Jun 29 2018

Fitplan Technologies secures $4.7 million in fresh capital for its software that provides personalized fitness regimens designed by hot-shots in the personal training industry.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180628005374/en/Fitplan-Technologies-Secures-4.7-Million-Venture-Funding
Jun 29 2018

Centauri Health Solutions, which provides revenue optimization and quality of care services to providers and plans, is acquiring NHI Billing Services, which offers revenue management and billing services to health systems in regard to Medicaid.

https://healthy-skeptic.com/wp-admin/post-new.php
Jun 29 2018

Bind Health, which offers "on-demand" health insurance benefits, has raised a total of $70 million in its Series A funding.

https://tech.mn/news/2018/06/28/bind-banks-70m-for-on-demand-health-insurance/
Jun 29 2018

Okay, so now everyone in the pharmacy business can officially freak out, Amazon said it will buy PillPack for about $1 billion.  PillPack bundles drugs and ships them to patients who buy online.  I don't think that is actually much of a threat to the Walgreens and CVS' of the world.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-buy-online-pharmacy-pillpack-1530191443
Jun 25 2018

Wildflower Health, which offers, wait for it, a MOBILE APP to help families manage their health, is acquiring another, wait for it, MOBILE APP, Circle, which is oriented toward helping pregnant women.

https://medcitynews.com/2018/06/wildflower-health-circle/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=63999468&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8AEDAb0QlSlYG4vcW2vXjgnWC9dCoWtqoqFW8HGAm9DH4FbUJkXyY5BP5APlLmYECLr9KyDsz3IJZ-UU3UmD0etJL4s7IQf886RVGEaaAsrcUxqn4&_hsmi=63999468