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May 04 2015

IMS Report on Medication Use

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Starting off the week with more medication reports is a summary of the IMS report on drug use in America.
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May 01 2015

CMS, Meaningful Use and Other Physician Incentive Programs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Need all your fingers and toes to count the Medicare "quality" initiatives doctors have to comply with, and many are responding with a certain finger to those programs.
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Apr 30 2015

TransUnion Report on Consumer Health Financial Exposure

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
TransUnion Healthcare issued a report on how patients are coping with the ongoing financial pressures related to their health care.
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Apr 29 2015

The Individual Mandate and Penalties

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A report from Avalere suggests that the penalty for failing to have health insurance is too low to incent people to enroll.
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Apr 28 2015

Medicare’s Early ACO Experience

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Research in the New England Journal of Medicine evaluates early results from Medicare's Pioneer accountable care organization initiative.
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Apr 27 2015

The Role of Retail Health Clinics

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report explores the ongoing expansion of retail health clinics.
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Apr 24 2015

EEOC’s Wellness Regulations

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Wellness programs received long-awaited "guidance" from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on avoiding disability discrimination issues. Gotta love those bureaucrats, what we do without them.
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Apr 23 2015

Venture Activity in Q1 2015

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The National Venture Capital Association releases stats on first quarter 2015 venture capital activity.
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Apr 22 2015

ADP Health Benefits Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
ADP released a survey of large firms regarding their health benefits.
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Apr 21 2015

Waste in Health Spending, How Much is There Really?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A new paper from NBER examines the concept that extensive amounts of health care is "wasted" in the US and why that might be so.
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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

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About This Blog

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