Kevin Roche

Feb 16 2015

GAO on High-Cost Procedure Price Variation

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The Government Accounting Office examines what causes variation in the pricing of certain high-cost procedures, finding it is largely attributable to hospital costs.

Feb 13 2015

Competition and Part D

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A Congressional Budget Office report examines the effects of competition among Part D plans in Medicare's prescription drug benefit.

Feb 12 2015

Drug-skipping

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A brief from the Centers for Disease Control examines reasons that adults may not have used medications as prescribed, which largely relate to costs.

Feb 11 2015

Employee Cost-Sharing

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The Health Care Cost Institute takes its own look at consumer cost-sharing and price variation.

Feb 10 2015

Home Telemonitoring

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Research has generally not supported claims for quality and cost improvements from using telemonitoring, but a new study suggests it can have positive results, although cost control may not be…

Feb 10 2015

The Alexion health system is acquiring the Medical Care Group, which offers primary care services at several clinics in Illinois.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/alexian-brothers-health-system-expands-primary-care-network-through-acquisition-of-the-medical-care-group-300031753.html

Feb 10 2015

A venture firm has invested $75 million in Bankers Healthcare Group, which offers loans to health care providers.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/02/pinnacle-financial-invests-75-mln-in-bankers-healthcare-group/

Feb 10 2015

FDA Final Guidance on medical data systems.

http://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/UCM401996.pdf?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Feb 09 2015

Quality Reporting and Surgery Outcomes

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Oops, another study finds that a quality reporting program doesn't seem to make a bit of difference in surgery outcomes and costs.

Feb 07 2015

Video Medicine, which aims to provide telehealth capabilities to smaller practices, raised $1.1 million.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/02/telemedicine-platform-caters-small-practices-raising-1-1m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=fc2476f59f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-fc2476f59f-67648197

Feb 06 2015

TrialReach, which connects patients with clinical trials, got investors to give it a trial with $13.5 million in investment.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/02/trialreach-nabs-13-5-mln-series-b/

Feb 06 2015

Kura MD gets $1.5 million in capital for the 8 millionth telehealth platform to connect providers, patients, payers, hackers, etc.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/02/kura-md-raises-1-5-mln/

Feb 06 2015

Out-of-Pocket Spending

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Out-of-pocket spending for health care has increased most rapidly for people with employment-related health insurance, according to a study in Health Affairs.

Feb 05 2015

Force Therapeutics forces its way to $2.2 million in new capital to bring telemonitoring to physical therapy.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/02/remote-monitoring-for-physical-therapy-force-therapeutics-raises-2-5m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=12e8fe5216-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-12e8fe5216-67648197

Feb 05 2015