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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 13 2016

A study in Annals of Internal Medicine reveals that few consumers who engage in direct-to-consumer genetic testing share the results with their physicians.

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2498491
May 13 2016

Health care staffing firm Advanced Medical Personnel Services is acquiring Rise Medical Staffing.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/05/3331637/
May 12 2016

Large numbers of patients are using virtual visits for routine and urgent care due to convenience.  Research in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that guideline adherent care is not delivered in a significant fraction of these virtual visits and there is substantial variation in care across virtual visit websites.

http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2511324
May 10 2016

Mysterious bioinformatics and health analytics company NantHealth has filed to raise up to $92 million in a public offering.

https://www.statnews.com/2016/05/09/soon-shiong-nant-health/
May 10 2016

Its simplee befuddling, but it is plain that investors like Simplee, giving the vendor of services to help patients pay hospitals an additional $20 million in capital.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/05/simplee-patient-payment-service/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=24d203fc0b-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-24d203fc0b-408793005
May 06 2016

MultiPlan, which offers PPOs and other cost containment services to self-funded employers, TPAs and smaller health plans, is being acquired by a PE firm.

http://www.multiplan.com/pdf/news/press_release_20160505.pdf