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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.

Nov 02 2016

ConcertoHealth, an operator of clinics for the elderly, has orchestrated a $30 million infusion of capital, music to management's ears.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/11/concertohealth-rakes-in-30-mln/
Nov 01 2016

Telemedicine vendor Avizia has wrapped up a $17 million capital raise.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/10/avizia-ny-presbyterian-investment/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=36803463&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_TM5kCGT5kX-FQx27IQSbLHQ5mH4z-PCHaTWogOQh3j73AOYNPLUYpfzcpxtB_SGRMfI0IfP7nmYkaKucV80ccYMX0NKDy_bUTDPltp3tEdPfP-bw&_hsmi=36803463
Nov 01 2016

Private equity firm Blackstone is buying health care staffing giant Team Health for around $3.2 billion.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/blackstone-to-acquire-team-health-for-about-3-2-billion-1477916987
Oct 31 2016

Zimmer Biomet has purchased telerehabilitation service vendor RespondWell.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/10/zimmer-biomet-snaps-up-interactive-telerehabilitation-business-respondwell/?rf=1
Oct 28 2016

Behavioral health IT vendor Netsmart Technologies is making what it hopes is an intelligent acquisitions, buying long-term care software firm HealthMEDX.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/10/netsmart-acquires-healthmedx/?rf=1
Oct 28 2016

Research in Health Affairs finds that Medicare hospice spending rose to almost $16 billion in 2015, up from $10.4 billion in 2007, and that this spending has significant geographic variation, suggesting an opportunity to ensure appropriate use of the setting.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/35/10/1902.abstract
Oct 28 2016

Braincheck, a mobile app for evaluating brain health, has raised $3 million.  Another example where the investors might have wanted to use the product before investing.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/10/braincheck-scores-3-mln/
Oct 26 2016

A study in Health Affairs confirms that using a limited provider network results in lower premiums, around 7% less on average, for plans on the health insurance exchanges, but many consumers are unaware of the consequences of a limited network, which may not include their usual providers, and that 7% doesn't seem like much in light of the horrendous premium rises expected for 2017.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/35/10/1842.abstract
Oct 26 2016

As many would suspect, a study regarding prostate cancer in the journal Medical Care finds that compliance with process quality measures has no relationship to true outcomes such as complications and patient satisfaction and quality of life.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Impact+of+Adherence+to+Quality+Measures+for+Localized%0D%0AProstate+Cancer+on+Patient-reported+Health-related%0D%0AQuality+of+Life+Outcomes%2C+Patient+Satisfaction%2C+and%0D%0ATreatment-related+Complications