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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 02 2016

Medstreaming, a vendor of software solutions for the cardiology, vascular and radiology specialties, is acquiring Physician Billing Partners which does revenue cycle management for the same vendors.

http://www.newscenter1.tv/story/32551513/medstreaming-announces-the-acquisition-of-revenue-cycle-management-provider-physician-billing-partners
Aug 01 2016

A PE firm is buying pharmacy benefit manager WellDyneRx, reportedly for around $1 billion.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/08/carlyle-to-buy-welldynerx/
Jul 29 2016

Healthways, a model history lesson for current hyped companies, has sold its population health unit to Sharecare.  It appears that Healthways basically got nothing for the unit.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/07/sharecare-acquires-healthways-population-health-management/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=32252928&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8yQ0RhIjwUe7CBCZMFK41V6kn9l0QI4No10M1VXOn0nPkK_tDMbk9-LAsWuad9RRxZk3HNNqlkCNgvFWI97TxK_8uEKu-NiGOhBdefhPva70lJmD8&_hsmi=32252928&rf=1
Jul 27 2016

No more wandering for Nomad Health as the online freelance medical work platform finds a home for $4 million in additional capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/07/nomad-health-inks-4-mln/
Jul 27 2016

In a huge announcement with gigantic implications, enormous(ly little) digital health company Big Health, which has a sleep app called Sleepio (I am getting very sleepy, very sleepy), has raised a titanic $12 million in new capital from mammoth investors.  oooohhhhh, just what we need, another digital health company.

http://www.fiercebiotech.com/medical-devices/digital-health-company-big-health-snares-12m-financing-round?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=635530&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVdReU1EZzNPV1F6WkdZMiIsInQiOiJQcVhkNzNBRG90QXB6ZzlxZ2RNdUlaMzZYbW9JekNXOUxVcjI4Z2dnbm91TWJiaGtRbmhOckNtSGN2Z2R0WUxmc1wvNVN1dit0RVdWQnhiUHcxOWlOK3F1Tkk1SUl4bW5JSmFRTmpuYXZPQzg9In0%3D
Jul 26 2016

CMS' hospital stars program is already drawing fire for the same issues as the readmission penalty initiative has--disproportionate punishment of hospitals serving sicker, poorer patients.

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/healthcare/cms-star-ratings-favor-smaller-hospitals-lower-risk-patients?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=635530&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRNME0yRTFNVGt4WVRGbSIsInQiOiJFWkRFQTZsdTNYNWVOSUwzN0VPSENXTHFNQXRQZmJwZU5Ga1ZoNE40SStzaW5YXC9rR3dwdURTa3I3ME4yOWFMWHlnZjZRZXgyeXBuR1dWbldrRGozWGhBK05jWHpGdDFyXC9nYjJrTzRLWFVzPSJ9
Jul 26 2016

Onsite health clinic operator Premise Health has acquired Transform Health, which is in the same business.

http://www.premisehealth.com/premise-health-acquires-transformhealthrx/
Jul 26 2016

Goldman Sachs snacks on Marathon Health, investing $30 million in the provider of worksite health centers.

http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/goldman-sachs-invests-30-million-in-marathon-health-2141594.htm
Jul 22 2016

AristaMD, which offers a platform to support referrals, gathers $11 million in fresh capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/07/3344470/
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