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Aug 28 2019

Medical Homes and Patients with Chronic Diseases

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Research in Health Services Research finds that medical homes can improve quality of care for persons with chronic diseases.
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Aug 27 2019

Unintended Consequences of Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A paper in the British Medical Journal finds some interesting provider reactions to the hospital readmissions reduction program.
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Aug 26 2019

Relative Medical Risk of MA and FFS Medicare Beneficiaries

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another study, this one published in Health Services Research, suggests that CMS is paying Medicare Advantage plans too much.
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Aug 23 2019

How Good is Physician Assessment of Risk?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A new study from NBER reveals what we all might fear--doctors aren't necessarily great at assessing health risks.
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Aug 22 2019

Is There a Relationship Between Social and Health Spending?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A study in Health Affairs looks at the relationship between social and health spending in a country, with a surprising finding.
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Aug 21 2019

Trends in Consumer Costs Related to Health Care Coverage

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A brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Peterson Foundation tracks the increase in consumer cost-sharing for health care coverage.
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Aug 20 2019

Large Employer Health Benefits Survey

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The National Business Group on Health issues its latest survey of large, primarily self-funded, employer views on health benefits.
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Aug 19 2019

Evaluating Hospital Rating Systems

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A study looks evaluates publicly available hospital quality ratings.
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Aug 16 2019

Defective Research in Psychology

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More disturbing news on issues in health-related research.
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Aug 15 2019

Commercial Plan Hospital Price Trends

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A brief report from UnitedHealth Care makes hospital prices actually not seem as awful as they are, which wasn't their intent.
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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

Headlines

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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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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