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Mar 06 2019

Payer and Patient Prices

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A report from Massachusetts examines the relationship between the price a payer reimburses at and a patient's out-of-pocket cost.
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Mar 05 2019

Exchange Policy Claim Denials

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The Kaiser Foundation releases a report on claims denials by health insurance exchange plans.
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Mar 04 2019

Concentration in Health Spending by Patient, Payer and Service Category

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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality releases another in its series of Statistical Briefs on concentration in health spending.
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Mar 01 2019

Health Plan Economies of Scale

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A brief from Sherlock Company discusses health plan economies of scale.
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Feb 28 2019

Variation in Private Health Insurance Spending

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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

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A Commonwealth Fund report reviews competition among Medicare Advantage plans.
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Feb 26 2019

A Ten-year Projection of Health Spending

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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

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Magellan releases its annual report on specialty drug costs.
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Feb 22 2019

Accenture Survey on Digital Health

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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

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Gee, what a shock, hospital consolidation, vertical or horizontal doesn't have significant quality benefits.
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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...
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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

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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

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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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