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Apr 19 2023

Value-Based Comprehensive Primary Care in Action

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Comprehensive primary care initiatives may not be achieving either reductions in spending or improvements in quality.
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Apr 17 2023

Reference-Based Pricing and Provider Network Size

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Trying to get provider network composition right bedevils payers.
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Apr 16 2023

More on Research Follies

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A truly fascinating piece of research demonstrates the difficulty of replicating soft science results.
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Apr 16 2023

People Just Make Sh*t Up and It Gets Believed by Whacked Progressives

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Florida State University professor just makes up data to try to prove racism. He got caught but most don't.
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Apr 15 2023

An Osteoarthritis Pain Trial Takes a Knee

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An intervention to to reduce knee pain in overweight osteoarthritis patients doesn't lower pain by much.
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Apr 13 2023

Physician Practice Patterns

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Physician practice patterns vary, and those variations can affect both spending and quality outcomes.
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Apr 12 2023

A Weighty Study Pounds Sand

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A remotely-delivered behavior intervention does zipola to meaningfully reduce body weight or improve health status.
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Apr 11 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 204

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A potpourri of the ongoing but somewhat diminishing tide of CV-19 research.
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Apr 10 2023

Medical Spending on the Rise

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
I continue to expect rising health care prices and spending as we move through 2023.
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Apr 10 2023

April 2023 CV-19 Data Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another month of data shows the ongoing decline in CV-19 cases, which probably reflects reporting trends as much as real infections.
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Apr 08 2023

Why Health System Consolidation Is Bad for Consumers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Hospital/physician practice integration raises costs with no countervailing improvement in quality.
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Apr 07 2023

A Mindless Mindfulness Exercise

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Another supposedly great health intervention bites the dust.
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Apr 06 2023

Another Example of Why You Can’t Trust Most Climate “Data”

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An interesting question is why the climate "experts" don't seem to want good quality temperature data.
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Apr 06 2023

Who Owns Little Timmy Walz and Minnesota Policy?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Minnesota DFL and Little Timmy Walz are owned by the government employee unions and rich ideologues.
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Apr 05 2023

The Phony Job Numbers Begin to Reverse

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Even the federal government can only lie about the state of the labor market for so long.
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Kevin RocheThe 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. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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This is an outstanding report on total global drug spending and trends, with projections out to 2025.  It helps you understand this important area of health care, which does much...
June 1, 2021
The Office of the Actuary annual report on national health spending, covering 2018.
December 7, 2019
2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
October 1, 2019
MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
June 18, 2019

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Press Ganey, which provides market research for health plans and providers , is being purchased by health care survey firm Qualtrics for $6.75 billion.  Both companies claim this is all...
October 6, 2025
Another weirdly named company, Thyme Care, spices things up by raising a fresh $97 million in capital to support its cancer care managment business.
September 25, 2025
Sometimes companies change their name, I have no idea why and it often seems goofy.  CapitalRx, which is a pharmacy benefit manager, with aspirations to be a broader technology provider...
September 25, 2025
Innovacer, a health care technology company that claims extensive use of artificial intelligence, is acquiring Story Health, which helps manage patients with chronic care conditions and who need specialty care.
September 18, 2025

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