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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.

Mar 19 2018

Medinas Health, which helps health care organizations sell surplus equipment, garners $1 million in fresh financing.

https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/03/15/1438144/0/en/Medinas-Health-Closes-1-Million-Seed-Round-Co-led-by-Ashton-Kutcher-Guy-Oseary-s-Sound-Ventures-and-General-Catalyst-s-Rough-Draft-Ventures.html
Mar 19 2018

Parachute Health is developing software and processes to facilitate the ordering of durable medical equipment for patients and has raised $5.5 million in new capital to support that business.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180316005132/en/Parachute-Health-Raises-5.5-Million-Seed-Transform
Mar 19 2018

Continuing a whirlwind of recent deals, probably meant to mask serious issues, Centene has made a significant investment in RxAdvance, a supposedly futuristic PBM, with the right to increase its stake in the future.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/centene-and-rxadvance-establish-transformative-partnership-to-create-next-generation-pharmacy-management-solution-300612797.html
Mar 19 2018

Siemens Healthineers unit has completed an IPO valuing it at $5 billion.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-15/siemens-raises-5-2-billion-in-german-ipo-of-health-care-unit
Mar 19 2018

Large health care IT vendor Cognizant is buying Bolder Healthcare Solutions, which offers revenue cycle management software and services for about $108 million.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/03/jz-capital-sell-bolder-healthcare/
Mar 09 2018

PierianDx, which helps labs manage genomic information, has raised a round of $3 million in capital.

https://www.genomeweb.com/informatics/pieriandx-raises-3m-new-funding-seeks-2m-more
Mar 09 2018

Lindora, a supervised weight loss and wellness company, has received a round of beautiful additional financing.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180220006676/en/Lindora-Receives-Additional-Growth-Capital
Mar 09 2018

According to a TransUnion report, average out-of-pocket health care spending by consumers rose 11% from Q4 2016 to Q4 2017, going from $1630 to $1813.

https://newsroom.transunion.com/patient-payment-responsibility-increases-11-in-2017/
Mar 09 2018

The Healthy Billion, one of the weirdest names ever for a company, raises $2.1 million in capital for its health care data analytics product.

https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/thb-series-unknown--254b65d5
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