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Feb 28 2019

Variation in Private Health Insurance Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A study in Health Affairs provides another look at variation in spending for the privately insured population.
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Feb 27 2019

Competition in Medicare Advantage

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Commonwealth Fund report reviews competition among Medicare Advantage plans.
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Feb 26 2019

A Ten-year Projection of Health Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
CMS' Office of the Actuary gives us the latest projection of 10 year health spending.
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Feb 25 2019

Magellan Report on Specialty Drug Trend

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Magellan releases its annual report on specialty drug costs.
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Feb 22 2019

Accenture Survey on Digital Health

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An Accenture survey covers digital health, with a finger on the pulse of consumers. I thumbed through it for you (and thumbed my nose at it).
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Feb 21 2019

Quality and Hospital Horizontal and Vertical Consolidation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Gee, what a shock, hospital consolidation, vertical or horizontal doesn't have significant quality benefits.
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Feb 20 2019

Beneficiaries Views of Medicare

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
eHealth releases results from a survey of Medicare beneficiaries regarding the program.
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Feb 19 2019

HCCI 2017 Spending Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The 2017 Health Care Cost Institute report on health spending finds that price is again a dominant factor in trend.
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Feb 18 2019

Happy Presidents Day

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
My usual rambling, meaningless post to commemorate a holiday, which at least here in Minnesota for this one just marks the dreary continuation of a cold winter.
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Feb 15 2019

Government Health Plan Spending Growth Has Been Slower than Private Plans’, Doh

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A truly lightweight report from the Urban Institute finds lower per enrollee spending growth for government programs than private health plans.
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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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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

Big deals continue in health care financings.  eMed, which manages weight loss medications for employers, raises a hefty $200 million, giving it a valuation of $2 billion, which seems crazy....
March 31, 2026
Color Turquoise Health happy, as it raises $40 million in new capital to support an expansion of its business from price transparency to managing contracts for providers.  Unfortunately the price...
March 18, 2026
Eight Sleep, another one of those weird names that litter health care, raised a new round of capital which supposedly values the company at $1.5 billion.  Eight Sleep sells sleep...
March 10, 2026
Simplistically, high health spending is due to high hospital prices, which is due to excessive market power.  An article shows just how concentrated most US hospital markets are.   In...
March 10, 2026

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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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