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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.

May 10 2017

A large PE firm is buying employee health and other benefits brokerage OneDigital Health and Benefits.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/new-mountain-buys/
May 09 2017

Employer health data analytics firm Artemis Health has raised $8.3 million in capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/artremis-health-raises-8-3-mln/
May 09 2017

Medical Solutions, a health care staffing firm, is being sold from one private equity firm to another for around $500 million.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/tpg-growth-to-acquire-medical-staffing-firm-medical-solutions-reuters/
May 08 2017

PreparedHealth gets ready for the big time with $4 million in financing for its software that connects family and community caregivers.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/preparedhealth-lands-4-mln-seed/
May 08 2017

Twine Health entangles itself with more investors, stringing them along to get $1.5 million in new capital.  We don't have enough health coaching vendors so that is what Twine's business is.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/05/twine-health-raising-1-5m/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=51576445&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9qpN-tZ8uAuHXgIHIx3cgWUz_gvv92qjkzVl5Lt8bhQ3KwYkLTOHTWixtcHr8e5Rx2vzaJc6K1d12RwwHMneMYnV4cx1iJyd6XJ3RuvGaosiW9G6g&_hsmi=51576445&rf=1
May 05 2017

States that had more ads promoting getting health insurance under the ACA saw greater declines in their uninsured population, says a study in Health Affairs.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/36/4/747.abstract
May 04 2017

Radiology Partners gets a whopping $200 million in new capital to grow its on-site radiology business.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170503005186/en/Radiology-Partners-Receives-200-Million-Investment
May 04 2017

EverlyWell gets a lasting commitment of $5 million in fresh financing for its business of providing at-home lab test kits, which lead to "beautifully redesigned results".  Not my words, the company's, who writes these things anyway, the figurative one million monkeys banging away on a keyboard.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170503005023/en/EverlyWell-Raises-Additional-Capital-Bringing-Total-5
May 04 2017

Use of imaging has declined in the last 7 years, due to government and private payer efforts to rein in excessive use, according to a study in Health Affairs.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/36/4/663.abstract