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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 04 2016

More Health, a vendor of data exchange among providers and payers, has garnered $5.5 million in fresh capital.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/10/startup-facilitating-data-flow-payers-providers-raises-5-5m/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=35288157&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--zqxpjytLrYOad0BWt56HgBVhxDuHoEwAWwfcCGr3DWl1fQszZRXYhPX4mS37lpYu7fdlYq5_5n_QG9HXfdzXYsIFY2gEYXgIjGuZoxdPPDzLGLpY&_hsmi=35288157&rf=1
Oct 04 2016

A survey from the MGMA finds that revenues were down in 2015 for both independent and health system-owned physician practices, with group practices losing over $13,000 per physician and health systems supposedly losing over $200,000 per doctor.

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/2015-revenues-down-among-practices-healthcare-systems?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWldRd05EaG1OMlF6TjJWbCIsInQiOiJ4VDRpT1wvamRGajg4emw4RG4yVFUyYU4zQ3FIUE9BTEU1VDZaRDNtRXJSbDZWRWxnbUtLSXM0V3E0SitCRVBNclwvMkFSYklIdUduRFFmdUZnRDc1Z1ppMzVqT1hRQWt3ZW5wUTRLcXVXTUIwPSJ9&mrkid=635530&utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Oct 04 2016

Magellan Rx released a Medicaid drug trend report showing that net per claim costs (costs after all discounts and rebates) for 25 state Medicaid programs rose a modest 3% from 2014 to 2015.

http://ir.magellanhealth.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=990517
Sep 30 2016

Medication regimen manager Tabula Rasa priced its IPO yesterday, raising around $55 million.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/09/vc-backed-tabula-rasa-rolls-out-ipo/
Sep 27 2016

Health care messaging platform Klara has raised $3 million in growth capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/09/nyc-healthcare-messaging-platform-klara-attracts-3-mln/
Sep 27 2016

According to research firm Markets & Markets the population health market will be worth $32 billion by 2020.

http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/population-health-management-market-263411936.html
Sep 27 2016

A new study in JAMA indicates that using wearable activity trackers does not lead to weight loss.

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/it/study-activity-trackers-won-t-necessarily-help-you-lose-weight?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=635530&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RKaE5XWXlZall3TlRRdyIsInQiOiJcLzZVSHcyZGZBMVNXVVlqdXo1YWJ2bjRvWFdkQ3NFektaXC9Ga2xqWFBGemFvTmN5T3p2bmI5M1V5eUdaOTNOSHRJT0h0V3R3U0JrQTlvVW9MSjF2cTg0b3RKdFR4ajFCNXV3cnQ4TnNQU2pVPSJ9
Sep 27 2016

Data and analytics company Innovalon is acquiring specialty pharmacy software vendor Creehan Holdings for between $105 and $130 million.

http://www.inovalon.com/press-releases/2016/inovalon-acquire-creehan-company-industry-leading-specialty-pharmacy-saas
Sep 27 2016

Telehealth vendors Salus Telehealth and VideoMedicine are combining to form a more comprehensive telemedicine offering.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/09/salus-videomedicine-merge/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=34940597&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9St2mJqD0-Ghm_6lMvy7nk1n4BSqEIxSp5tEnNCNfKWx4XXWWrI7gxmISm54FJLrtD5HBkG60ScInKIutornsxAYLF628Oe2n8_M8vHPkTRBTphfA&_hsmi=34940597&rf=1
Sep 27 2016

InstaMed, a health care payments network vendor, has received $50 million in additional financing from a PE firm.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/09/carrick-provides-50-mln-to-instamed/3
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