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Dec 20 2017

WillisTowersWatson Global Benefits Survey

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WillisTowersWatson issues results from its annual Global Benefits Attitudes Survey.
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Dec 19 2017

FDA Guidance on Software and Medical Devices

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Food & Drug Administration releases guidance on issues related to health care software.
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Dec 18 2017

Quality According to Patients, Employers and Physicians

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A survey by Leavitt Partners and the University of Utah reveals divides in patient, employer and physician perceptions of quality.
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Dec 15 2017

How Have Health Plans Done Financially in Recent Years

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Deloitte report looks at health plan financial performance over the last few years.
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Dec 14 2017

Medicare’s Value-based Modifier and Quality

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
CMS' creation of a value-based purchasing modifier used with reimbursement seems to have little actual correlation with quality of care.
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Dec 13 2017

Patient Satisfaction and Denials of Service Requests

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Denying requests for services isn't a good way for doctors to improve patient satisfaction, according to a study in JAMA internal medicine.
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Dec 12 2017

Preventable Spending Among High-Cost Medicare Patients

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Research carried by the Annals of Internal Medicine focuses on preventable spending among high-cost Medicare patients.
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Dec 11 2017

National Health Spending in 2016

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The annual CMS Office of the Actuary report on national health spending, covering 2016, has been issued.
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Dec 08 2017

Predicting Need for Palliative Care

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New work from Stanford scientists helps identify patients most likely to die and therefore be good candidates for palliative care.
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Dec 07 2017

Workers’ Compensation Trends

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A report from Rising Medical looks at trends in workers' compensation claims.
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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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