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Dec 28 2016

Care Management Delivery Models

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Research in Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology compares various care management delivery strategies.
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Dec 23 2016

Happy Holidays

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Happy and relaxing holidays for all.
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Dec 22 2016

More Evidence of Hospital Consolidation’s Pernicious Effects

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
New York's State Health Foundation releases a report examining hospital pricing in the region.
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Dec 22 2016

The Utility of Mobile Apps

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A Health Affairs article explores the utility of mobile health apps, particularly for high-cost populations.
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Dec 20 2016

Mortality Rates and Physician Gender

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A study in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that patients of female physicians have lower hospital mortality rates.
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Dec 19 2016

Society of Actuaries Papers on Risk-Scoring Models

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Nerd Alert!!! Today's post is on a very esoteric topic, patient risk-scoring models.
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Dec 16 2016

Digital Health Use Survey

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Rock Health issues survey results regarding people's use of digital health.
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Dec 15 2016

Variation in Medical Costs and Resource Utilization

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A report from Minnesota reveals substantial variation across medical groups in their total cost of care and resource utilization.
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Dec 14 2016

Reducing Surgical Costs

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New research suggests that use of scorecards can help reduce the overall costs of surgeries.
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Dec 13 2016

Reduction of Hospital-Acquired Conditions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
In what appears to be good news, rates of hospital acquired conditions appear to have dropped substantially over the last five years.
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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

Speaking frankly, Candid Health looks like one of those companies we don’t need in health.  It claims to have new revenue cycle management software that is heavily driven by AI...
July 27, 2026
Health care is a big part of the economy so investment dollars tend to flow there, not always wisely.  There is alot of gibberish in this press release from Pearl...
July 9, 2026
InStride Health hit the ground running, well maybe walking, as it raised $30 million in additional capital for its pediatric mental health business.  Children’s mental health would be just fine...
June 17, 2026
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

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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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