Kevin Roche

Feb 11 2016

PE firm Water Street is selling Health Plan Services to Indian oursourcing firm Wipro for $460 million. Health Plan Services provides administrative services for insurers and health plans.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/02/water-street-healthcare-to-sell-healthplan-services-for-460-mln/

Feb 11 2016

Physician Training and Practice Variation

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A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research examines the relationship between physician training and practice variation.

Feb 10 2016

SwervePay gets $10 million in fresh capital for its mobile patient payment system.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/02/swervepay-fetches-10-mln-series-b/

Feb 10 2016

Telemedicine provider First Stop Health has raised $2.1 million in financing.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/02/first-stop-health-raises-2-1-mln-in-seed-funding/

Feb 10 2016

Medicare Advantage Payments

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An Avalere analysis confirms that CMS' Medicare Advantage risk adjustment formulas don't accurately pay for seriously ill patients.

Feb 09 2016

Pay-for-Performance and Teaching Hospitals

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Medicare's quality improvement programs may have a disproportionately negative impact on teaching hospitals.

Feb 08 2016

Home health care franchisor H. H. Franchising Systems (wonder what the H. H. stands for?) has been acquired by PE firm Linsalata Capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/02/linsalata-capital-acquires-h-h-franchising-systems/

Feb 08 2016

A brief note from Accenture highlights investment in convenient on-demand forms of health care, like video and internet consultations.

https://www.accenture.com/t20151120T024431__w__/us-en/_acnmedia/Accenture/Conversion-Assets/DotCom/Documents/Global/PDF/Dualpub_25/Accenture-Healthcare-for-Here-or-to-Go-v2.pdf#zoom=50

Feb 08 2016

Sometimes if you aren't doing too well on your own, you can combine with someone else who isn't doing too well. I have no idea what is behind this combination but four health care management and transaction service companies are merging, Premier Healthcare Exchange, Stratose, GlobalCare and Pay-Plus Solutions, all supposedly industry leaders, so God knows how dominant that new entity will be.

http://www.phx-online.com/2016/01/28/industry-leaders-combine-to-form-unparalleled-company-in-healthcare-value-management/

Feb 08 2016

What Is Going On With the Economy and Health Care?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

2016 has started out with a thud in the equity markets and that may reflect what is happening in our economy. Health care costs play a role.

Feb 06 2016

Concierge health care provider One Medical has added one more medical capability, acquiring Rise, a vendor of nutritional counseling services, supposedly for $20 million.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/02/one-medical-acquires-nutrion-app-developer-rise/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=9fb0a92a06-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-9fb0a92a06-408793005&rf=1

Feb 05 2016