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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.

Aug 24 2017

AbleTo is, garnering $36.6 million in a new round of funding, as it expands its software-driven behavioral health services.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ableto-raises-366-million-in-series-d-funding-led-by-bain-capital-ventures-300508507.html
Aug 24 2017

Lumity shines, raising $19 million to support its service to simplify health plan choices and enrollment for employees.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/23/lumity-raises-19m-to-simplify-employee-health-care-choices/
Aug 23 2017

Stride Health, which helps workers who don't have employment-based health insurance locate and select a health plan, has received $23.5 million in new capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/f-prime-capital-leads-series-b-round-for-stride-health/
Aug 23 2017

Large Catholic-affiliated hospital network Ascension is merging with Presence Health, in another example of hospital consolidation which will do nothing to reduce health spending.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170822/NEWS/170829976?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20170822-NEWS-170829976&utm_campaign=am
Aug 23 2017

Health care provider network analytics vendor Quest Analytics is being acquired by a PE firm for an undisclosed sum.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/3468552/
Aug 17 2017

Illinois-based DuPage Medical Group is being sold from one PE firm to another for $1.45 billion.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/summit-exits-dupage-medical-in-1-45-bln/
Aug 17 2017

eSolutions, which optimizes customers revenue cycle management processes, is buying RemitDATA, which offers data and analytics capabilities.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/pe-backed-esolutions-buys-remitdata/
Aug 16 2017

Happify Health is also happy to announce new funding, $9 million, to support its personal behavior change software and services platform.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/ttcp-leads-9-mln-round-for-happify-health/
Aug 16 2017

HealthJoy, which offers a health care decision-making platform, is ecstatic to happily announce that it is very pleased to add $3 million in joyful capital.

https://healthjoy.com/announcing-healthjoys-3-million-series-funding-round/
Aug 16 2017

Benefit optimization vendor Artremis Health garners $16 million in a new financing round.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/artremis-health-raises-16-mln/