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Oct 01 2015

The Latest IFHP Report on Comparative Health Prices

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One of my favorite annual reports is out, from the International Federation of Health Plans, comparing prices for medical services and goods in various countries.
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Sep 30 2015

Kaiser Foundation Employer Health Benefits Survey Part III

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In part III of our look at the Kaiser Health Benefits Survey we cover drug benefits, wellness and miscellaneous matters.
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Sep 29 2015

The Annual Kaiser Employer Health Benefits Survey, Part II

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In the second part of our review of the Kaiser health benefits report, we focus on plans offered and employee uptake.
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Sep 28 2015

The 2015 Kaiser Employer Health Benefits Survey Part 1

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The Kaiser Foundation has released its outstanding annual survey of employers in regard to health benefits.
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Sep 25 2015

The Institute of Medicine on Diagnostic Quality

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The latest Institute of Medicine report regarding health care quality explores diagnosis issues.
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Sep 24 2015

Mobile Text Messaging and Coronary Heart Disease Management

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Research carried in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds a modest benefit from a text message-based intervention to help manage risk factors related to heart disease.
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Sep 23 2015

At-risk Reimbursement Methodologies

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A presentation at an Altarum Institute Conference gives a good summary of new approaches to reimbursement.
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Sep 22 2015

Prevalence and Treatment of Chronic Conditions

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Two studies in Health Affairs find that chronic disease prevalence is probably higher than assumed and that the reform law's insurance expansion may lead to more diagnosis of these diseases.
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Sep 21 2015

Mobile Health Apps

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IMS' Institute for Healthcare Informatics issues a report on the use and value of mobile health apps.
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Sep 18 2015

High-Utilizing Patients

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Research published in Health Affairs digs a little further into the dynamics of patients who tend to be responsible for a high percentage of all health spending.
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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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