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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.

Oct 27 2017

Devoted Health has raised $61 million to develop Medicare Advantage plans.  Initial states for the plans were not identified.

https://medcitynews.com/2017/10/athenahealth-cofounders-launch-insurance-startup-aimed-medicare-advantage-members/?rf=1
Oct 26 2017

Anthem is acquiring America's 1st Choice, which operates Medicare Advantage plans in Florida and South Carolina.

http://ir.antheminc.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=130104&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2310931
Oct 26 2017

MA risk adjustment vendor Matrix Medical Network is acquiring LP Health Services, which also provides risk adjustment visits and some care management services.

https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/10/23/1151747/0/en/Matrix-Medical-Network-to-Acquire-LP-Health-Services.html
Oct 26 2017

Health care IT vendor Imprivata is acquiring, Caradigm, GE's division which sells health care access and identification software.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20171025/NEWS/171029928?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20171025-NEWS-171029928&utm_campaign=hits
Oct 24 2017

Concentra, a large workers' comp and urgent care clinic provider, and U.S. Healthworks, another vendor of onsite occupational health clinics, are being merged by their respective PE owners in a transaction valued at around $750 million.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/10/concentra-and-u-s-healthworks-to-merge/
Oct 20 2017

The 2017 Kaiser Foundation Employer Health Plan Survey.

https://www.kff.org/health-costs/report/2017-employer-health-benefits-survey/
Oct 20 2017

A study in the Annals of Emergency Medicine found that in the New Haven area, Medicaid patients waited substantially longer than did commercial ones to get a followup appointment at most physician practices, although they had shorter waits for a more serious issue, hypertension, than for one like back pain.  Helps explain ER misuse and demonstrates impact of low reimbursement rates.

http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(17)31529-9/abstract
Oct 19 2017

In a very complex transaction, patient engagement vendor MedHelp is being split between disease and health management vendor Staywell, which is itself majority owned by Merck and which is acquiring disease management focused-apps from MedHelp, and consumer health website vendor Vitals, which is acquiring the similar parts of MedHelp.

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