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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.

Sep 01 2015

340B Program Rule

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-08-28/pdf/2015-21246.pdf
Aug 28 2015

Medical device manufacturer GreatBatch is buying Lake Regional Medical, which all does outsourcing work for medical device companies, for $1.7 billion.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/08/with-1-7b-deal-medtech-cro-greatbatch-swells-to-one-of-worlds-largest/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4a0c8e7a69-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-4a0c8e7a69-408793005
Aug 28 2015

The Wall Street Journal reports that regulators are granting most of the very large premium increases health plans requested for exchange policies; in another big win for health reform's promise to reduce premiums.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/insurers-win-big-health-rate-increases-1440628848
Aug 27 2015

medical adv group

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Medical Advantage Group, which offers physician practice consulting services, is acquiring Health Care Management (there’s a generic name), which offers HIT consulting to the same market.

Aug 27 2015

Navigating Cancer, which helps patients do just that, has raised an additional $10 million in financing.

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/prnewswire/press_releases/Washington/2015/08/20/SF81533
Aug 27 2015

WebPT, a vendor of administrative software for the rehab providers, is acquiring Therabill, which offers practice management solutions in the same market.

https://www.webpt.com/blog/post/therabill-joins-the-webpt-family
Aug 27 2015

A new study from the Commonwealth Fund finds that there is little real competition in many locales for Medicare Advantage plans, lending further support to criticism of further consolidation.  The analysis suggests that almost all counties are highly concentrated by antitrust standards.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2015/aug/competition-medicare-private-plans-does-it-exist
Aug 26 2015

According to a study in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise wearable exercise trackers may not be very accurate and show high levels of variability.

http://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abstract/publishahead/Comparison_of_Consumer_and_Research_Monitors_under.97731.aspx
Aug 26 2015

Xerox's health business has acquired RSA Medical which provides member and patient health and risk assessments.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/money/2015/08/24/xerox-aquire-rsa-medical/32262033/
Aug 26 2015

Cardinal Health has spent $290 million to acquire 71% of naviHealth, which provides and coordinates care following hospital stays.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/08/cardinal-health-acquires-navihealth/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=1f1581694c-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-1f1581694c-408793005
Aug 25 2015

PlanSource has raised $70 million to fund growth of its health exchange and benefits administration technology.

http://plansource.com/press-releases/plansource-raises-70-million-to-fuel-innovation-in-benefits-technology/
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