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Apr 12 2018

Q1 2018 Venture Capital Activity

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A Venture Monitor report finds a robust venture capital market in the first quarter of 2018.
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Apr 11 2018

Online Physician Reviews

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Online physician reviews are not consistent with more credible patient satisfaction surveys.
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Apr 10 2018

Effects of Improving ER Response Times

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Research carried at the National Bureau of Economic Research examines what happens when you legislate lower ER response times.
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Apr 09 2018

Malpractice Environment and Physician Practice Location Choice

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A new paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research finds evidence that the malpractice environment in a state influences where a doctor chooses to practice.
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Apr 06 2018

Hospital Cost-Shifting

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A new paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research finds some evidence of hospital cost-shifting from Medicare to private health plans.
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Apr 05 2018

Latest Altarum Institute Health Spending Reports

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The latest reports on health spending from the Altarum Institute indicate continued moderate growth in spending and prices.
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Apr 04 2018

Do Health Care Costs Cause Bankruptcy?

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A commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine takes on the myth that medical costs are causing large numbers of consumers to go bankrupt.
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Apr 03 2018

The Price of Services at Different Sites of Care

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A report from Fair Health summarizes trends in use of different sites of care and pricing at those sites.
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Apr 02 2018

Technology Is Not Going to Dramatically Change Health Spending

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Today's post is a slight rant regarding the constant nonsense that technology will change health spending.
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Mar 30 2018

Medicare ACO Performance

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An Avalere analysis finds that accountable care organizations are probably costing Medicare money.
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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

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
There are so many health care companies that people struggle to come up with names and we end with weird stuff like Grow Therapy, which nonetheless raised $150 million to...
March 4, 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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