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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.

Nov 11 2015

WorkWell Medical has worked the financial markets well to get an undisclosed amount of new financing for its occupational health and urgent care center business.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/11/salt-creek-capital-invests-in-workwell-medical/
Nov 11 2015

LevelFunded Health has gotten some undisclosed level of venture funding for its business of helping small employers offer health benefits.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/11/levelfunded-health-grabs-venture-funding/
Nov 09 2015

A PE firm is buying Examination Management Services, which does what its name says, provides medical information, investigation and risk adjustment services for insurers.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/11/monroe-capital-supports-beecken-petty-okeefes-buy-of-emsi/
Nov 06 2015

A study from BDO found that health care chief executive and chief financial officer pay rose rapidly last year.

https://www.bdo.com/news/2015-october/cfo-year-over-year-compensation-outpaces-ceo
Nov 06 2015

Telepsychiatry provider 1DocWay was apparently one document away from being acquired by Genoa Healthcare, whose primary business is operating pharmacies in community mental health facilities.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/11/telepsychiatry-1docway-sold-genoa/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=8f29880df2-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-8f29880df2-408793005&rf=1
Nov 04 2015

Envision Healthcare is acquiring Questcare Medical for about $135 million, adding another large medical group to its stable of medical specialists and other capabilities.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29066306/envision-healthcare-grows-with-acquisition-of-questcare-medical?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=23438030&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9m3oquepf_WTsb4gF70Z9cyZUp5A5MHZzpcLjpg06JsCEpcjU-NSHHELs9EUzBjm9wPA_HNNbTWPoQGZLX9t6qOC_oOxP2TZ2o8k2V8XvyYkx6b0I&_hsmi=23438030
Nov 04 2015

SCI Solutions is expanding from its referral management and patient scheduling base by acquiring Clarity Health, which offers prior authorization and referral management services.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/11/vc-backed-sci-solutions-buys-clarity-health/
Nov 04 2015

Solera Health pulls in a sunny $3 million to be a "technology enabled health community integrator for chronic disease prevention."  Whatever.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/11/vc-backed-sci-solutions-buys-clarity-health/
Nov 03 2015

A survey from the American College of Emergency Physicians claims that more patients are using the ER due to narrow networks and high deductibles.  This is a blatantly flawed survey (just read the question composition) designed solely for the purpose of pressuring health plans to pay ER doctors more.  It is simply disgraceful for a profession like medicine to corrupt science in this way and it ignores the fact that larger networks and richer benefits raise premiums, which also hurts patients.

http://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid=2466532