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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.

Jan 11 2014

Maryland, which already has an all-payer hospital rate-setting regime, has gotten permission from HHS and agreement from state hospitals to limit increases in hospital spending to no more than the rate of economic growth in the state.

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2014/January/10/maryland-hospitals-radical-plan-limit-spending-change-payment.aspx?utm_campaign=KHN%253A%2520Daily%2520Health%2520Policy%2520Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=11610717&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9SEG6pdPW8qVK7FcqAlMvBEgSMwwLuarGWWBsuw6ag8NN2b4FQyth_m4OtBfUXa48rvR84femOmzMqRNCbwEEp26S7aQ&_hsmi=11610717
Jan 09 2014

MedHOK has received a mammoth $77.5 million investment from Bain Capital and others to continue growth of its care management platform.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/01/bain-capital-ventures-and-spectrum-equity-back-medhok/
Jan 08 2014

Omicia, which develops software to make sense of masses of genomic data, has raised $6.8 million.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/01/omicia-hopes-boil-genomic-big-data-useful-information-raises-6-8m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=518d35689e-RSS_Daily+Top+Stories&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-518d35689e-67648197
Jan 08 2014

Lumiata, a startup aimed at collecting health data for provider use in predicting health issues and treatments has raised $4 million from Khosla Ventures.

http://medcitynews.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ba61994f8a7da5ab4c4bc02bf&id=e205bc2765&e=053c6947d0
Jan 08 2014

Zephyr Health, which provides "big data" collection and analytics for life sciences companies has raised $15 million to continue growing its business.

http://www.finsmes.com/2014/01/zephyr-health-raises-15m-funding.html
Jan 08 2014

Wellpoint is selling its 1-800-Contacts unit to a private equity firm and apparently taking a hefty loss on the transaction.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-01-07/wellpoint-to-sell-1-800-contacts-site-to-thomas-h-dot-lee-partners
Jan 08 2014

Kaiser is selling its Archimedes health economics modeling and software division to Evidera, which is owned by Symphony Technology group.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140108/NEWS/301089956?AllowView=VDl3UXk1TzRDdnlCbkJiYkY0M3hlMEtwaDBVZEQrQT0=&utm_source=link-20140108-NEWS-301089956&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hits&utm_name=top
Jan 07 2014

MedPAC Fact Book on Dual Eligibles

https://a7d050c2-a-10078ef1-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/macpac.gov/macpac/publications/Duals_DataBook_2013-12.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7cqXKnTKnMoO1LMbUcJwnRCboSVMIN0Aia1jXRCf2XBKztKx-67zZ0O-OXhwEbYrQc_U4ij26iiqRuQ-Cq1qOyK1WWDWKm2vthI24Q_aw6dBlIHVP-gyujPcnu7WcsFrbMdYmX2XOZFqw2r6aa3uKqAHvhm-Cj-kZhZxtPdlpx4aL7HyZGDKJAwqwPsGrRT1uB-7EZSez3PkxA1DAq1i3Od9pMHv_2pPMcY9ag2qOM97PMEyoig%3D&attredirects=1
Jan 07 2014

According to the American Hospital Association, hospitals provided $45.9 billion in uncompensated care in 2012, up from about $41.1 billion in 2011.

http://www.ahanews.com/ahanews/jsp/display.jsp?dcrpath=AHANEWS/AHANewsNowArticle/data/ann_010214_uncompensated&domain=AHANEWS
Jan 07 2014

About 60% of Americans rated their experience on the health care exchanges negatively in December according to a Gallup survey.

http://eba.benefitnews.com/health-insurance-exchange/news/nearly-60-of-uninsured-rate-hix-experience-as-negative-2738473-1.html?gpt_units=/HIX&utm_source=editorial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=utm_hix_010714&hix
Jan 07 2014

2013 was a good year for venture-backed company exits, according to data from the National Venture Capital Association.  There were 82 IPOs for such businesses during the year, the strongest since 2007.  M & A exits were a little slower, with 377 acquisitions of venture-backed firms during the year.  Health care IPOs and mergers were prominent.

http://www.nvca.org