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Oct 09 2018

Physician Survey, Part II

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More on physicians' attitudes about work and the health system from the Physicians Foundation biennial survey.
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Oct 08 2018

Merritt Hawkins Physician Survey Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The biennial survey of doctors sponsored by the Physicians Foundation and conducted by recruiting firm Merritt Hawkins has been released.
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Oct 05 2018

Willis Towers Watson on Health Benefits

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Willis Towers Watson gives us its perspective on what is happening with employment-based health benefits.
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Oct 04 2018

Weight Loss Interventions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
JAMA has the latest recommendation and supporting research on behavioral interventions for weight loss.
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Oct 03 2018

Provider Consolidation in California

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Provider consolidation in California has caused significant premium increases and health care service price growth, according to an analysis in Health Affairs.
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Oct 02 2018

2019 Medicare Advantage Plans

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Beneficiaries will have more Medicare Advantage plan choices and experience lower premiums in 2019, according to a CMS announcement.
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Oct 01 2018

Cost of Pivotal Trials for New Drugs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An analysis in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that the cost of drug pivotal trials may be less than what the industry suggests.
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Sep 28 2018

Patient Literacy and the Value of Administrative Simplicity

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Accenture issues a report on health plan administrative complexity and the interaction with patient literacy, claiming doing a better job would save a few billion a year.
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Sep 27 2018

Physician Burnout

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An issue of JAMA has articles focusing on physician burnout.
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Sep 26 2018

Supply Factors in Geographic Health Spending Variation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Yet another paper on geographic spending variation; its sources and extent.
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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

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
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

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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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