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May 03 2016

Milliman Report on Oncology Care Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A Milliman report examines cancer care costs, finding that spending increases are largely driven by higher usage of hospital outpatient settings for chemotherapy.
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May 02 2016

Willis Towers Watson Global Medical Trends Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Willis Towers Watson issues a 2016 Global Medical Trends Report.
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Apr 29 2016

Variation in Commercial Health Plan Provider Payments

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another report using data from the Health Care Cost Institute finds wide geographic variation in payments for the same services.
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Apr 28 2016

Latest Reports on Venture Capital Activity

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The latest data from the National Venture Capital Association indicates a slowing but not dead funding environment.
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Apr 27 2016

Our Health Spending Is an Asset?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A policy brief from the National Center for Policy Analysis argues that high US health spending is reflective of a strong economy and is an asset, not a burden to…
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Apr 26 2016

The Burden of Hospital Quality Measures

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Work released by the Healthcare Association of New York State illustrates the burden quality measure reporting places on providers and recommending changes.
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Apr 25 2016

Employee Cost-Sharing

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Kaiser Family Foundation brief demonstrates how much health care cost-sharing has increased for workers.
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Apr 22 2016

Another Physician Attitude Survey

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A survey of around 1000 physicians supports previous findings that they are generally unhappy with the reform law and with life in medicine.
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Apr 21 2016

Provider-Owned Plans

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A McKinsey Report describes the current status of the new wave of provider-owned health plans.
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Apr 20 2016

What!?! Physicians Respond to Economic Incentives?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A paper from the National Bureau of Economics reveals, not surprisingly, that physicians respond to economic incentives in choosing treatments.
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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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