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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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Feb 14 2019

A Long, Long Perspective of Health Care in the US

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A blog post from the Centre for Economic Policy Research looks at 200 years of health care and health care spending.
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Feb 13 2019

Chronic Disease Patient Care Shortfalls

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A report from Premier discusses ER visit reductions that could result from better management of six common chronic conditions.
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Feb 12 2019

Hospital Cost-shifting in Colorado

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Colorado publishes a report outlining hospital cost-shifting in the state.
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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

Hinge Health, which manages care for musculoskeletal and migraine conditions, opens the door to gastrointestinal care with a $105 million acquisition of Cylinder Health, which focuses on managing meds and...
August 5, 2026
If you are a health care company, you too can raise astronomical sums of capital if you claim to be part of the AI wave.  Function Health demonstrates by raising...
August 3, 2026
Included Health wants no one to feel left out, so it is buying Firefly Health, which is attracted to the light of all that money.  Included Health is yet another...
July 29, 2026
Telehealth is still going strong and whenever possible the companies in the field talk about AI.  Doctronic has an “AI Doctor” which you can visit and it is acquiring Summer...
July 29, 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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