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Jul 18 2016

HealthMine Digital Health Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A new "digital" health report fingers the state of use of digital health tools through a consumer survey.
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Jul 14 2016

2015 Health Spending According to the Office of the Actuary

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The annual review of national health expenditures by the Office of the Actuary is out and 2015 was another year of growth above GDP.
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Jul 13 2016

High Cost Patients

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The American Health Policy Institute publishes a paper on dealing with high-cost patients.
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Jul 12 2016

MedPAC Report on Medicare Issues, Part II

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Today we continue summarizing the issues covered by MedPAC in its recent annual report to Congress.
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Jul 11 2016

MedPAC’s 2016 Report to Congress

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
In MedPAC's annual report to Congress on the Medicare program a number of current topics are covered.
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Jul 08 2016

2016 Medicare Trustees Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The 2016 Medicare Trustees Report paints a grim picture of the funding status for Medicare benefits.
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Jul 07 2016

Helping Families of Terminal Patients

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A study carried by JAMA finds that emotional support meetings did not help the families of critically ill patients.
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Jul 06 2016

Effectiveness of TeleHealth Applications

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An AHRQ report assesses evidence for the efficacy of telehealth and telemedicine functionality.
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Jul 05 2016

Care at the End of Life

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A meta-review in the International Journal for Quality in Health Care confirms that much care provided near the end of a patient's life does little good.
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Jul 01 2016

Where Do People Go After Hospital Discharge?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Statistical Brief from AHRQ provides an all-payer look at what happens after patients are discharged from the hospital.
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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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