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Aug 03 2017

Social and Medical Risk Factors in Value-Based Purchasing Results

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Research carried by the Journal of the American Medical Association looks at the impact of social factors and medical risk on valued-based purchasing program performance.
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Aug 02 2017

Medical Homes in Health Centers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
In a study of medical home implementation at federally qualified health centers, researchers found that costs increased.
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Aug 01 2017

End-of-Life Health Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Research in Health Affairs finds that end-of-life spending, across several countries, is lower than previously reported.
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Jul 31 2017

Health Legislation Priorities

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Now that reforming the reform law appears to be off the table for a while, here are the top health issues that Congress should, but probably won't address.
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Jul 28 2017

Patient Use of EHR Information

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another Government Accounting Office report finds that patients find it hard to use EHR information even when they have access to it.
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Jul 27 2017

How Bad is Our Health System?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
In another flawed hatchet job on the US health care system, the Commonwealth Fund claims it is terrible compared to other developed countries.
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Jul 26 2017

Medicare Disenrollment Data

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Government Accounting Office report examines the characteristics of Medicare Advantage members who disenroll.
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Jul 25 2017

“Digital” Health Company Funding

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Rock Health report gives statistics on first half 2017 funding of digital health companies.
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Jul 24 2017

Is Health Care an Inherent or Basic Human Right?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The basis for many people's believe in government-controlled health care is that it is an inherent or basic human right. That is a strange argument to me.
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Jul 21 2017

Why Do Readmissions Happen?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The British Medical Journal publishes a survey of perceptions about the preventability of hospital readmissions.
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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

There is some weird angle here, as Angle Health raises $600 million in a new capital round, but it appears some of it is to provide liquidity to existing shareholders....
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More AI craziness in health care.  A company called H1 is buying Defacto Health for God-knows how much money.  Both companies claim an AI background and to help with “provider...
September 11, 2026
To show you how AI fever has infected every part of the investing world, this company, Forus, raised $150 million in new capital at a $3 billion valuation by saying...
September 9, 2026
Thyme Care decides its time to party, spicing up its business with a fresh $125 million in capital, with a valuation of over $2 billion.  The company helps manage cancer...
September 3, 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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