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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.

Apr 10 2014

Omada, which says it is in the business of "digital therapeutics"  (I am not laughing)  has raised $23 million (now I am) for its software and apps (what else could it be) that will help patients with chronic illnesses achieve better outcomes.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/04/andreessen-horowitz-leads-series-b-round-for-omada-health/
Apr 09 2014

Uh-oh.  A first look by Express Scripts at the new enrollees under the exchanges finds that they tend to be older and less healthy.

http://lab.express-scripts.com/insights/government-programs/first-look-health-exchange-medication-utilization
Apr 09 2014

Premier, the large hospital group purchasing organization, has acquired Memdata, which aids hospitals in construction and capital equipment purchasing.

http://www.benzinga.com/news/14/04/4451772/premier-inc-acquires-memdata
Apr 09 2014

2014 MedPAC Annual Report

http://medpac.gov/documents/Mar14_EntireReport.pdf
Apr 09 2014

The Wall Street Journal has the first of what undoubtedly will be many analyses of what Medicare pays to physicians, finding that a few specialists receive astounding amounts of Medicare payments.  About 1% of doctors receive 14% of all payments and a number receive multi-millions a year from the program.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303456104579490043350808268
Apr 09 2014

Black Book Rankings finds that Practice Fusion is the EHR primary care doctors are most satisfied with, followed by Greenway and Care360.

http://ehrintelligence.com/2014/04/07/black-book-top-primary-care-ehr-honor-goes-to-practice-fusion/
Apr 09 2014

The HHS Office of Inspector General issued a report finding that CMS did not do a good job of detecting inappropriate coding on visits to hospital outpatient clinics.

http://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region4/41206154.pdf
Apr 08 2014

According to an article in the Fiscal Times based on a Morgan Stanley survey of brokers, small group and individual health insurance policies sold outside the insurance exchanges are seeing the largest premium increases in the history of the survey.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/04/08/Health-Insurance-145-Million-Get-Massive-Increases?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=12439520&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_zHcf0gyDaRDDTD409Tjt7zA3we4Vy0uQjDOZ4qRGbVHxMKdDS_hDBcaZsx3z18N6AbKJhfg7Ofz66G15zDj33Awy2Jw&_hsmi=12439520
Apr 08 2014

Bjond has raised $3.25 million to fund development of a new care management platform.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/04/3-25m-superharge-legacy-care-management-systems/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=6ec44d9de3-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-6ec44d9de3-67677117
Apr 08 2014

Sheridan Healthcare, a physician staffing company in areas like radiology and anesthesiology, apparently intends to file for an initial public offering.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/04/sheridan-healthcare-hires-banks-for-ipo-reuters/
Apr 08 2014

Wellframe, which intends to help people be "engaged in personalized care plans" has raised a $1.5 million seed round.  Gag me if I hear about one more mobile health app to help consumers.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/04/digital-health-company-wellframe-scores-1-5-mln-seed-funds/
Apr 07 2014

2015 Final MA, Pt. D Call Letter

http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Health-Plans/MedicareAdvtgSpecRateStats/Downloads/Announcement2015.pdf
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