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Nov 20 2018

Health Savings Accounts

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An EBRI study details use of health savings accounts.
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Nov 19 2018

More Work on Attributing Health Spending to Specific Conditions

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The National Bureau of Economic Research publishes a paper looking at methods of attributing health spending to specific medical conditions.
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Nov 16 2018

Trends in Primary Care Visits

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A Health Care Cost Institute report reveals a downturn in physician visits.
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Nov 15 2018

Hospital Consolidation Costs Patients More

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A New York Times analysis and article confirms what we already know; when hospitals consolidate health plans and patients pay more.
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Nov 14 2018

Some Thoughts on Medicare for All

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Medicare for All is an absurd idea as postulated by its proponents and perpetuates the ever-increasing government role in health care that has caused our current cost and access problems…
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Nov 13 2018

Medicare ACO Savings

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An analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that physician ACOs, but not hospital-led ones, reduced spending for Medicare.
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Nov 12 2018

The MEPS View of Employment-Based Insurance

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After two posts on the annual KFF survey of employment health plans, we look at a recent report from AHRQ on the same topic.
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Nov 09 2018

KFF Employment-Based Health Coverage, Part II

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More highlights from the Kaiser survey on 2018 health plan costs and trends for employers.
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Nov 08 2018

KFF Employment-based Health Plan Survey Part I

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The annual Kaiser Family Foundation survey on employment-related health benefits has been released.
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Nov 07 2018

End-of-life Health Spending

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An analysis in Science magazine gives a new look at Medicare end-of-living spending.
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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

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
Mental health companies are very hot.  Virtual mental health services provider Talkspace is being bought by hospital operator Universal Health for around $835 million, a high multiple of revenue and...
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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