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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 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 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 03 2016

Medicare's Revised ACO Payment Rule

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-02-03/pdf/2016-01748.pdf
Feb 03 2016

According to DRX, a unit of Connecture that helps patients pick Medicare plans, prices on a number of drugs have more than doubled since 2014, and some have quadrupled.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-02/shkreli-not-alone-in-drug-price-spikes-as-skin-gel-soars-1-860
Feb 03 2016

Huron Consulting is buying MyRounding, which has software supporting physician rounding activities, to round out its portfolio of health IT services.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/02/huron-consulting-acquires-digital-health-startup-myrounding/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=2b2f2accd9-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-2b2f2accd9-408793005&rf=1