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May 11 2015

Returns on Investment

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Evolent IPO filing is a reminder that investing is often not rational.
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May 08 2015

Drug Use by Medicare Beneficiaries

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Bookending the week is another medication item as CMS released detailed data on drug use by Medicare beneficiaries.
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May 07 2015

A New Physician Compensation Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The annual Medscape physician compensation report reveals low growth for many of the most common specialties, but family medicine saw a 10% rise.
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May 06 2015

Investing in “Digital” Health

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A recent report examines funding for startup health companies, especially those involved in "digital" health.
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May 05 2015

IOM on Health System Metrics

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Viewpoint in JAMA summarizes a recent Institute of Medicine report designed to rationalize quality measurement for health systems.
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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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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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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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