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Nov 12 2015

Survey on Caring for Complex Medicare Patients

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A survey reflects providers' challenges in caring for Medicare patients with chronic diseases.
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Nov 11 2015

Healthy Insurance Marketplaces

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A report from the Health Care Cost Institute examines the competitiveness and cost status of various American communities.
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Nov 10 2015

Rock Health on Digital Health Use

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A Rock Health report discusses consumer adoption of digital health technologies.
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Nov 09 2015

Pharmacy Deductible Impacts

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A report from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics looks at the effect of pharmacy deductibles on medication adherence.
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Nov 06 2015

Massachusetts Medicaid Managed Care

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Massachusetts once again is trailblazing for the country, as its managed Medicaid program runs into big, but very predictable issues.
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Nov 05 2015

The Use of Virtual Health

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Accenture issues a brief report touting the benefits of virtual health.
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Nov 04 2015

Medicare Advantage Member Satisfaction

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A J.D. Powers survey asks Medicare Advantage enrollees about their satisfaction with MA plans.
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Nov 03 2015

Results From Another Medical Home Initiative

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An analysis of a Colorado medical home demonstration finds mixed results, at best.
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Nov 02 2015

HCCI’s 2014 Commercial Health Spending Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Health Care Cost Initiative releases its 2014 commercial health plan spending report.
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Oct 30 2015

Medicaid Enrollment Errors

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A Government Accounting Office report finds, surprise, surprise, that we are likely wasting billions of dollars in the reform law's Medicaid expansion.
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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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