Skip to main content
Healthy Skeptic
search
Menu
  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research
  • Useful Links
  • About & Contact
  • Podcasts
  • search
Close Search

Commentary

 

Jul 19 2019

How Much Money Would More Use of Biosimilars Save?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A paper from the Pacific Research Group finds that there are large potential savings from more, and more use of, biosimilars.
Read More
Jul 18 2019

Reference Pricing Effects

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A study carried by the Journal of Health Economics explores how consumers react to reference pricing.
Read More
Jul 17 2019

Effect of A Capitated Primary Care Payment Method on Quality and Cost

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association looks at the effects of switching to a capitated reimbursement method for primary care physicians.
Read More
Jul 16 2019

Readmission Penalties and Surgery

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A study in Health Affairs tracks the impact of readmission penalties on surgery hospitalizations.
Read More
Jul 15 2019

Sources of Malpractice Claims

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
New research suggests that many serious malpractice claims derive from diagnostic errors.
Read More
Jul 12 2019

Physician Recruiting Incentives

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Merritt Hawkins survey focuses on incentives used to recruit physicians and other clinicians.
Read More
Jul 11 2019

Using Private Health Plans for Public Payment Programs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A new study finds that using private health plans for Medicaid benefit provision improves quality but doesn't lower spending.
Read More
Jul 10 2019

The RVS May Not Accurately Reflect Actual Physician Work Time

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
I know it's shocking, just shocking, but the RVS, basically created by doctors, may overstate the time that various medical tasks take.
Read More
Jul 09 2019

Physicians as Patients

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Research in a National Bureau of Economic Research paper explores how physicians behave as patients.
Read More
Jul 08 2019

EHRs and Physician Burnout

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An article in Health Affairs describes the negative effects that EHRs have on physician work satisfaction.
Read More
  • « Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 361
  • 362
  • 363
  • 364
  • 365
  • …
  • 627
  • Next »

✅ Receive notifications of new posts by email.

About this Blog

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.

Healthy Skeptic Podcast

Research

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

This isn’t really surprising, given what you can see in employment and other reports.  Minnesota is one of the state’s viewed as having a bad economy, one that is either...
December 23, 2025
Angle Health, a vendor of a supposedly artificial intelligence powered health benefits platform for employers raised $134 million in new capital.  All you have to do is mention AI and...
December 4, 2025
Reema Health, which calls itself a complex care management company, reamed investors for $19 million in capital, to be used for the usual “to support growth”.  The firm works with...
December 2, 2025
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

Tags

Access (89) ACO (165) Care Management (268) Chronic Disease (216) Comparative Effectiveness (81) Consumer Directed Health (71) Consumers (514) Devices (168) Disease Management (149) Drugs (605) EHRs (145) Elder Care (149) End-of-Life Care (97) FDA (85) Financings (1843) Genomics (80) Government (357) Health Care Costs (1428) Health Care Quality (616) Health Care Reform (1227) Health Insurance (1116) Health Insurance Exchange (162) HIT (478) HomeCare (76) Hospital (490) Hospital Readmissions (79) Legislation (78) M&A (1723) Malpractice (84) Meaningful Use (105) Medicaid (334) Medical Care (346) Medicare (607) Medicare Advantage (80) Mobile (89) Pay For Performance (92) Pharmaceutical (211) Physicians (569) Providers (252) Regulation (72) Repealing Reform (133) Telehealth (79) Telemedicine (325) Wellness and Prevention (316) Workplace (117)

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.

Categories

  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research

Useful Links

  • Health Affairs
  • Congressional Budget Office

RSS Feed

RSS feed

© 2026 Healthy Skeptic.

  • twitter
  • facebook
  • linkedin
Close Menu
  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research
  • Useful Links
  • About & Contact
  • Podcasts