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Nov 23 2016

Employer Use of Wellness Programs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A survey from United Benefit Advisors reports on how employers are using wellness programs.
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Nov 22 2016

Characteristics of Persons with High Health Spending

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The next AHRQ Statistical Brief we review examines the characteristics of those individuals with high health spending.
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Nov 21 2016

Concentration in Health Spending

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AHRQ puts out its regular brief on the concentration of health spending and it is still very concentrated folks.
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Nov 18 2016

2014 Per Person Health Care Spending

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A new AHRQ Statistical Brief describes health care expenses per person for 2014.
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Nov 17 2016

“Non-profit” Hospitals Get Whacked

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A physician writes an article in the American Journal of Medicine excoriating non-profit hospitals for their pricing and compensation practices.
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Nov 16 2016

How High-rated MA Plans Spend Their Extra Payments

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A Leavitt Partners analysis looks at what MA plans with high Star ratings do with their extra payments from CMS.
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Nov 15 2016

Retail Health Clinics

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A Rand report summarizes the current state of retail health clinics.
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Nov 14 2016

ACO Characteristics

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A Health Affairs study notes differences in commercial and public-payer oriented accountable care organizations.
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Nov 11 2016

GAO on Health Quality Measures

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We now return to our regularly scheduled programming, with a review of a GAO report on the federal government's use of health quality measures.
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Nov 10 2016

One Last Semi-political Post

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It is important for everyone to understand how powerful the forces must be that drive the election of a deeply flawed candidate, and health care is part of that.
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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

GoHealth is another of those excessively valued health startups that was always destined to flounder and not it has filed bankruptcy and the company will be turned over to lenders....
June 8, 2026
Garner Health isn’t gathering any accolades from me, as it raises a new round of $100 million in capital at about a $2.5 billion valuation.   The company supposedly steers...
June 2, 2026
IKS Health, a British company with a US subsidiary that offers “care enablement” and mentions AI, of course,  is buying TruBridge for $557 million.  TruBridge offers revenue cycle management and...
April 30, 2026
Innovacer, which basically collects data on a patient from multiple sources and aggregates it, raised an astounding $275 million in new capital, supposedly at a valuation of almost $3.5 billion....
April 22, 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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