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Mar 14 2019

Medicare Advantage Disenrollment

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Research published in JAMA Internal Medicine looks at reasons for Medicare Advantage disenrollment.
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Mar 13 2019

Express Scripts Drug Trend Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Express Scripts provides us with the first of the big PBM drug spending trend reports.
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Mar 12 2019

Interventions for Obese, Depressed Patients

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Two studies in JAMA show modest or no improvement from intensive interventions around diet and weight management for overweight, depressed patients.
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Mar 11 2019

Hospital Prices are a Problem

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Yawn, another study in Health Affairs showing that hospital prices are an issue for containing health spending.
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Mar 08 2019

The Value of Hospital Transition Interventions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Use of a transitional care service did not improve outcomes for patients with heart failure, according to a study in JAMA.
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Mar 07 2019

Comparative Costs of Sources of Usual Care

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality releases a brief on average costs at different types of usual sources of care.
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Mar 06 2019

Payer and Patient Prices

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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

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
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

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
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

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A brief from Sherlock Company discusses health plan economies of scale.
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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

Health care is a big part of the economy so investment dollars tend to flow there, not always wisely.  There is alot of gibberish in this press release from Pearl...
July 9, 2026
InStride Health hit the ground running, well maybe walking, as it raised $30 million in additional capital for its pediatric mental health business.  Children’s mental health would be just fine...
June 17, 2026
GoHealth is another of those excessively valued health startups that was always destined to flounder and not it has filed bankruptcy and the company will be turned over to lenders....
June 8, 2026
Garner Health isn’t gathering any accolades from me, as it raises a new round of $100 million in capital at about a $2.5 billion valuation.   The company supposedly steers...
June 2, 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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