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Jan 12 2017

Hospital/Physician Integration, Quality & Costs

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A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds no real quality benefit from hospital employment of physicians.
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Jan 11 2017

Larger Plans Get Better Physician Prices, Who Knew?

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Research carried in Health Affairs confirms that larger health plans do get lower prices from physicians.
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Jan 10 2017

Aon Hewitt on Global Medical Cost Trends.

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An Aon Hewitt report examines medical trends for employer health plans globally.
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Jan 09 2017

National Health Spending by Condition

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An article in JAMA survey spending on personal health care over the last two decades, with a focus on per condition expenses.
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Jan 06 2017

The Latest Altarum Health Sector Trend Report

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The latest Altarum Institute Health Sector Trend Report gives a good sense of where health spending for 2016 will end up.
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Jan 05 2017

Toward a Better Health System, Part III

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Today's post suggests some ideas to improve the current health system, if we can't totally replace it.
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Jan 04 2017

A Better Health System? Part II

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In our continuing thoughts on how to improve our health system, we look at how care is financed for most people.
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Jan 03 2017

A Better Health System

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As this blog demonstrates, it is easy to take shots at something as complex as health care. Is there a better system than we currently have?
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Dec 30 2016

Looking Back, Looking Forward

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A quick review of 2016 and....what lies ahead?
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Dec 29 2016

Predicting High-cost Patients

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Research published in Medical Care suggests an enhanced approach to finding high-cost patients.
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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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Research

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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