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Mar 13 2022

Two Years On, When Do We Get Our Apologies?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 10 Comments
Two years of bad policy; no apologies likely forthcoming.
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Mar 12 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 114

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
No weekend would be complete without a few CV-19 research summaries.
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Mar 09 2022

Some Health Care Research Nuggets

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
A digression, or rather return, to my health care research roots.
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Mar 09 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 113

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Still interesting and informative research coming out, so I will continue to summarize it for a while.
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Mar 08 2022

Breakthrough Events, March 7

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another update on breakthrough events as reported as a weekly proportion.
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Mar 08 2022

Per Capita Rates, Back to Where We Were

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
DOH fixes the "temporary" errors in its per capita rate calculations.
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Mar 08 2022

Year-over-Year Comparison, March 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Probably one of the last in the year-over-year charts as we hit the two year mark and start shutting this down.
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Mar 06 2022

Age Structure Charts, March 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The age structure charts show continued declines in most epidemic events across age groups.
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Mar 06 2022

Per Capita Rates, Another Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Dave's own calculation of per capita rates is likely to be close to DOHs when it corrects its data pulling error.
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Mar 04 2022

Coding and Health Care Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Government changes to reimbursement coding usually don't meet the objectives and result in higher spending.
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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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More AI craziness in health care.  A company called H1 is buying Defacto Health for God-knows how much money.  Both companies claim an AI background and to help with “provider...
September 11, 2026
To show you how AI fever has infected every part of the investing world, this company, Forus, raised $150 million in new capital at a $3 billion valuation by saying...
September 9, 2026
Thyme Care decides its time to party, spicing up its business with a fresh $125 million in capital, with a valuation of over $2 billion.  The company helps manage cancer...
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About This Blog

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. © Roche Consulting, LLC. Terms of Use.

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