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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.

Mar 09 2016

PE-owned MedBridge Healthcare, a provider of sleep diagnostic services, is merging with Sleep Services of America, a Johns Hopkins unit.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/03/vicente-capitals-medbridge-merges-with/
Mar 09 2016

Nautic is investing around $15o million in ExactCare Pharmacy, which provides mail order and drug management services.

https://www.pehub.com/buyouts/663454/
Mar 09 2016

New research appears to confirm that directing certain medical procedures, such as knee replacements, only to high-volume providers, could save significant health spending while maintaining or improving quality.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/hfss-gkr030316.php?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonvqjKce%2FhmjTEU5z17e8oXKS2lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ARMBjN6%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LMKM1ty9MQWxTk
Mar 05 2016

Inventiv, which provides services to help drug manufacturers with marketing, is considering an IPO which might raise $500 million.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-inventiv-health-ipo-idUSKCN0W52EU?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokuanJce%2FhmjTEU5z17e8oXKS2lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ETsplMa%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LMKM1ty9MQWxTk
Mar 03 2016

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You may recall my “fools rush in” post last week on new-style health insurer Oscar’s $400 million dollar funding round.  The company has acknowledged losing $105 million in New York and New Jersey in 2015.  Yep, that wonderful new approach to health insurance is working great, but might want to get some actuaries to help out.  As I said, fools rush in.

Mar 03 2016

McKesson Corp. is extending its business in Canada by buying that Rexall Health for $2.2 billion.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160302/NEWS/160309952?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160302-NEWS-160309952&utm_campaign=financedaily
Mar 02 2016

Quantros, a provider of quality and risk management software for providers, has acquired Camparion Medical Analytics, which does rating and ranking of providers on quality and safety issues.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/03/francisco-owned-quantros-buys-comparion-medical-analytics/
Mar 02 2016

Mobile app disease management and wellness vendor WellDoc garners another $29.5 million in capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/03/johnson-johnson-joins-welldoc-series-b-round/
Mar 01 2016

Population health management vendor Citra Health has purchased care management vendor SironaHealth.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/03/citra-health-buys/
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