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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.

Feb 23 2016

"Revolutionary" health plan company Oscar has apparently raised $400 million in additional capital at a rumored $2.7 billion valuation.  Fools rush in.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-23/oscar-said-to-be-valued-at-2-7-billion-in-fidelity-led-round?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=26530585&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--Kbvtt7gNc_rS54l4swr9prbJKICNd9cCkMEMbrcvBEE7dNKhYq8nOESbKrMSYNgKTRfYsMZvAUDY1ZzRw8wYUtKXp-1O0wBvcJ8Ufns9296nBJOA&_hsmi=26530585
Feb 22 2016

So you are a health plan selling policies on the reform law insurance exchanges and you do a lousy actuarial and pricing job and you are losing lots of money; so how to fix that.  Let's screw the doctors by cutting their reimbursement 4.5%; that is exactly what Highmark, a Pennsylvania Blues plan is doing.  Gutless, lame, pathetic; call it whatever you want, the regulators should stop it.  It isn't the doctors' fault that Highmark can't price.

http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/10004191-74/highmark-plans-marketplace?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokuqrPcu%2FhmjTEU5z17e8oXKS2lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4FS8thNa%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LMKM1ty9MQWxTk
Feb 18 2016

McKesson's corporate venture capital unit is investing in PokitDoc, which has a platform for health care transactions.  Maybe they will use some of the money to find a normal name.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/02/mckesson-ventures-has-made-a-strategic-investment-in-pokitdok/
Feb 18 2016

Indicating its seriousness about health care data and analytics, IBM is spending $2.6 billion to buy Truven Health Analytics, which helps providers, employers, plans, life sciences companies and others.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160218/NEWS/160219904?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160218-NEWS-160219904&utm_campaign=mh-alert
Feb 17 2016

Protenus (no, it doesn't support professional tennis) has raised $4 million in new financing for privacy tools for EMRs.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-protenus-seriesa-20160216-story.html?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=26333286&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9kQxFfPG4KmYN_0fBM28OVhswteGOczTPzeR2UcGY_X3cKZdo5m6ttyV7tq-SLD_8dJzO9cENJIhP-BYZAZBMFnOeF3LwqTOAGr3Z2fX8cVnmr0zM&_hsmi=26333286
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