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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.

Jan 08 2018

Connecture, a public company which provides software that facilitates health insurance exchanges, is being acquired at a puny 35 cents a share by a private equity firm.  This stock once traded at $12 a share.  Should be a clear warning about the dangers of small companies going public.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/01/francisco-partners-to-buy-connecture/
Jan 08 2018

Genome Medical, which offers assistance on the use of genetic information to physicians and patients through a telemedicine platform, has raised an initial round of $23 million in capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/01/genome-medical-collects-more-than-23-mln/
Jan 05 2018

drug prices

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You may have seen some stories about how drug manufacturers have been exercising “restraint” in keeping their 2018 price increases under 10%.  This makes me sick.  These companies are raising prices with absolutely no cost justification, this is purely generating higher profits.  They should be pilloried, not lauded.

Jan 05 2018

Telepsychiatry firm Quartet has raised a fresh $40 million in new capital.

https://medcitynews.com/2018/01/quartet-40-horizon/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_M_9B7WspJlJavTswzAp98DoQc-V4injSC5PEFV9xdB0YWL7CbWEwTP-f4muw_BHABsvofKfHD6tpNdOJ5NAzt1EVi3xbpiMhSXWTB0eSUMazwyrY&_hsmi=59801787
Dec 26 2017

Salo Solutions, a provider of health IT consulting and systems integration, is acquiring Delta Health, which offers software for home health care agencies and hospices.

http://deltahealthtech.com/salo-solutions-acquires-delta-health-technologies/
Dec 26 2017

Specialized EHR vendor Net Health is being recapitalized by two PE firms and management.

https://www.nethealth.com/the-carlyle-group-and-level-equity-together-with-net-health-management-to-acquire-net-health-a-provider-of-cloud-based-healthcare-it-solutions-to-healthcare-providers/
Dec 22 2017

Kindred

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The nation’s largest post-acute care provider, Kindred, is being purchased for $4.1 billion in a complex transaction.  Humana will end up owning about 40% of a new company that has Kindred’s home health and hospice business.  Two PE firms will purchase the remaining 60% of that business and all of Kindred’s long-term hospital business.

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