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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.

Jun 12 2015

Rehabilitation facility operator HealthSouth is buying Reliant Hospital Partners, a similar firm, for over $700 million.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150611/NEWS/150619975
Jun 12 2015

A Labor Department report indicates that health care costs continue to be a bigger component of overall compensation, particularly for larger employers.  The bad news is that workers should expect that these higher health care costs will limit wage growth.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/small-firms-have-made-adjustment-to-obamacare-requirements-report-suggests-2015-06-10
Jun 10 2015

Drug development service provider Patheon has filed for an IPO.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/06/pe-backed-patheon-files-for-ipo/
Jun 10 2015

Arrowlytics attracts $3 million in new funding for its analytics services for orthopedic practices.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/06/arrowlytics-takes-in-3-mln/
Jun 10 2015

National Surgical Affiliates received $52.5 million in debt financing to acquire a majority stake in Optim Healthcare, an orthopedic practice firm.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/06/pe-backed-national-surgical-healthcare-pulls-in-52-5-mln/
Jun 10 2015

Informed Data Systems gets a knowledgeable $8 million in Series A financing for its "OneDrop" diabetes management platform.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/06/rre-ventures-leads-8-mln-series-a-round-in-informed-data-systems/
Jun 10 2015

Big Data company Saama Technologies, which provides analytic platforms to health organizations and other customers, has gotten $35 million in new funding.

http://www.saama.com/saama-secures-35-million-series-funding/
Jun 10 2015

AbilTo shows an ability to raise money getting $12 million to help people manage chronic conditions and their mental health impact better.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/06/abilto-fundraise-to-support-product-expansion-to-more-payers/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=d67615752b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-d67615752b-67677117
Jun 10 2015

AHRQ Quality & Disparities Report for 2014

http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqdr14/index.html
Jun 10 2015

An analysis by Avalere suggests that government health programs will spend $50 billion over the next ten years just on ten new specialty drugs,including hepatitis C, cancer and cholesterol lowering medications.

http://avalere.com/expertise/managed-care/insights/the-future-cost-of-innovation-an-analysis-of-the-impact-of-breakthrough-the
Jun 09 2015

Fertility and pregnancy app maker Ovuline has raised $3.2 million in new capital.

http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2015/05/growing-fertility-app-maker-ovuline-raises-new.html
Jun 09 2015

Where to start?  In a surge of untouched innocence, investors have provided Virgin Pulse with $92 million, that's right, $92 million, to support its "next-generation" employee well-being platform.

http://www.virginpulse.com/press/virgin-pulse-funding/
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