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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 28 2019

Modern Health raises an up-to-date $9 million in new funding for its software and service to help maintain the emotional health of employees.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/modern-health-raises-a-9m-series-a-round-led-by-kleiner-perkins-300855797.html
May 28 2019

Cardinal Analytx garners $22 million to support its high-cost patient predictive software.

https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/23/cardinal-analytx-raises-22-million-to-predict-high-cost-health-plan-members/
May 22 2019

Health Monitor Network receives an undisclosed amount of additional capital to support its print and digital patient education business.

https://www.healthmonitornetwork.com/images/HM-WestView-Press-Release-5-15-19.pdf
May 22 2019

Children's behavioral health company Mightier gets stronger with an infusion of $6.6 million in capital.  Hope I won't be writing soon about how the Mightier have fallen.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/05/childrens-behavioral-health-firm-mightier-fetches-6-6-mln-series-a/
May 21 2019

Health information publisher Remedy Health Media is acquiring Vertical Health, which focuses on specialty publications for providers.

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/335991/remedy-health-media-acquires-vertical-health-crea.html
May 21 2019

Phil, Inc, which ophphers a sophtware platphorm to manage specialty farmaceuticals, garners $25 million in new phunding.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/specialty-prescription-management-provider-phil-secures-25mm-in-series-b-funding-300850546.html
May 20 2019

Discovery Health Partners, which assists health plans and others with payment solutions, is acquiring HealthMind, which offers similar services.

https://www.discoveryhealthpartners.com/discovery-health-partners-acquires-healthmind-llc/
May 20 2019

Health at Scale gets a weighty $16 million round of financing, all coming from the Optum division of UnitedHealth, to fund its artificial intelligence software to match patients with treatments.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/17/healthatscale-lands-16m-series-a-to-use-machine-learning-for-more-precise-healthcare/
May 20 2019

Financial giant JP Morgan is acquiring InstaMed, which helps providers collect cost-sharing amounts from patients and coordinates payments with insurers.  The price is supposedly around $500 million.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/05/jpmorgan-chase-acquires-healthcare-payments-fintech-instamed/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=72811050&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8zwAN8qxr5Xs3xJZhJhHqYiA5KWkIRpChLrh7aSH4w0LRw-eX1NzetwWQK2M2mzE4jZKXEiQUIPufK0OlP9tdE5pLwVwhSMzgWUXjZopG6FEKZDPU&_hsmi=72811050
May 20 2019

Meditation training company Core calmly acquires $4 million in initial capital.

https://www.hellocore.com/press.html