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Jun 30 2016

Health Care Shopper Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Health Sparq publishes a report of health care shopping behaviors.
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Jun 29 2016

Self-employed versus Employed Doctors

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A Medscape Survey examines attitudes of employed and self-employed physicians.
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Jun 28 2016

CMS’ Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

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A grand list of researchers evaluate the first two years of Medicare's comprehensive primary care initiative.
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Jun 27 2016

PWC’s Medical Cost Trend for 2017

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Based on a survey of employers, PWC's Health Research Institute expects commercial medical trend to continue to be "moderate" in 2017.
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Jun 24 2016

Results from Medicare ACO Effort

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The New England Journal of Medicine carries an analysis of early Medicare ACO results.
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Jun 23 2016

2017 Exchange Premium Analysis

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The Kaiser Family Foundation releases a brief summarizing the trends in 2017 exchange premiums to date.
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Jun 22 2016

Use of Ambulatory Surgery Centers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A study sponsored by the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association and performed by the Healthcare Bluebook finds that use of ASCs can reduce spending.
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Jun 21 2016

End-of-Life Spending Patterns

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Research carried in Health Affairs describes four patterns of end-of-life health spending.
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Jun 20 2016

Physician & Nurse Practitioner Recruiting Survey

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MerrittHawkins' 23rd annual survey on clinician recruiting and recruiting incentives reveals trends in specialty need.
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Jun 17 2016

Medicare Appeals

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A Government Accounting Office report finds serious shortcomings in the Medicare appeals process.
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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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