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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 09 2015

The American Medical Association has shockingly discovered that the proposed health plan mega-mergers would hurt competition in many markets!!  They are probably right, wish they would look at physician and hospital mergers the same way.

https://commerce.ama-assn.org/store/catalog/productDetail.jsp?product_id=prod2680007&navAction=push
Sep 09 2015

Epic Health is snacking on Option 1 Health, an enteral nutrition provider, to add to its portfolio of pediatric services and adult home care offerings.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/09/epic-health-buys-option-1-healthcare/
Sep 09 2015

Envision Pharma, which provides strategic communications services to the life sciences industry, is acquiring Alligent Biopharm Consulting, which helps the same industry develop medical affairs communications.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/09/envision-pharma-buys-alligent-biopharm-consulting/
Sep 08 2015

A report by the agency responsible for overseeing construction of VA health facilities finds rampant mismanagement and cost overruns, with the most glaring example being a Colorado medical center expected to cost triple the original projections, and it still isn't completed.  Still think government is good at this stuff?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-faults-va-management-denver-hospital-failures-33521448
Sep 08 2015

Canadian long-term care software provider PointClickCare has preparedwrittenfiled for a US IPO.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/09/jmi-equity-backed-pointclickcare-files-for-ipo/
Sep 08 2015

Cardiopulmonary Corp., which calls itself a "connected health" company, is connecting with Nuvon to create a merged entity focused on patient monitoring, clinical intelligence, etc.

http://www.massdevice.com/cardiopulmonary-corp-to-merge-with-nuvon/
Sep 04 2015

Medicaid health plan Molina is buying two behavioral health businesses from Providence health system.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150903005803/en/#.VeiVNUs4Ebo
Sep 04 2015

According to Black Book Rankings, Greenway is the top EHR vendor in terms of user satisfaction.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/greenway-earns-top-client-satisfaction-spot-in-2015-top-black-book-electronic-health-records-survey-for-primary-care-300135532.html
Sep 03 2015

And finally, PE firm Riverside owns Benesys, a third-party administrator which is buying another TPA called A & I Benefit.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/09/riverside-backed-benesys-buys-ai-benefit-plan/
Sep 03 2015

Back to the PE world, as EDG Partners is providing financing to allow newly-formed PWNHealth to buy a lab services authorization division from Medivo, which offers data analytics for clinical labs.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/09/edg-partners-supports-pwnhealths-buy-of-lab-services-platform-from-medivo/
Sep 03 2015

Xerox, which is not a PE firm, is acquiring a division of Inventiv Health, which is PE owned, called Patient Access Solutions, that helps pharmaceutical companies identify and engage patients.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/09/pe-backed-inventiv-health-sells-patient-access-solutions-unit-to-xerox/
Sep 03 2015

Its PE day, Medical Solutions, a vendor of nurse staffing services, has been recapped by BPOC and other PE firms.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/09/bpoc-and-heritage-group-recaps-medical-solutions/