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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 27 2017

New York-based third-party administrator Pomco Group is being purchased by UnitedHealth Group.  UHG does many, many relatively small acquisitions like this every year, most unannounced, as it expands its footprint across the entire health care industry.

http://www.syracuse.com/business-news/index.ssf/2017/03/syracuses_pomco_group_to_be_sold_to_united_healthcare.html
Mar 23 2017

India-based business process outsourcing company WNS Holdings has acquired HealthHelp for $95 million.  HealthHelp provides a care management platform for payers.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/03/mts-health-exits-healthhelp/
Mar 22 2017

CarePayment, which helps providers and patients ensure that care will be paid for, has been majority recapitalized by a PE firm and is moving headquarters to Nashville.

https://www.carepayment.com/carepayment-announces-new-owner-moves-headquarters-nashville/
Mar 22 2017

Bivarus, a provider of data and analytics to health care organizations, has received $4 million in fresh financing.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/03/bivarus-scores-4-mln-series-b/
Mar 22 2017

EvidenceCare proves investment worthy, gathering $2 million for its service that provides current medical research results and guidelines in an easy to use form.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170314006291/en/Nashville-Start-Up-EvidenceCare-Wraps-2-Million-Funding
Mar 22 2017

Hearst Company division First DataBank, a vendor of information and software relating to drugs, has purchased Polyglot Systems, which assists patients with medication instructions in multiple languages.

http://www.fdbhealth.com/company-news-and-events/2017-03-16-fdb-acquires-polyglot-systems/
Mar 20 2017

HMS Holdings, which helps Medicaid and other payers with programs to ensure appropriate payments to providers, has acquired Eliza, which offers patient engagement and member analytics for a whopping $170 million in cash.

http://investor.hms.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1017033
Mar 19 2017

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Traffk is acquiring Capsci Health, exchanging the “k” in its name for the extra “ci” at the end of Capsci, so that it can spell “Traffic” correctly.  The former company has “massive data analytics and insurance underwriting technology”, according to the press release. Not sure how mass relates to quality of a product, unless its weight lifting equipment.  The acquired firm has a really, really unique product that offers members mobile access to material related to their health plan.  I can’t have seen more than a hundred similar offerings.

Mar 17 2017

Cohero, another digital health company, raised an undisclosed amount of new funding.  You have to wonder what they are doing with all this money.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/03/cohero-health-nabs-funding/