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Feb 19 2016

Pricing When Drugs Lose Patent Protection

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An IMS Health report considers the rate of price declines when brand drugs lose their patent protection.
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Feb 18 2016

Our Culture and Life Expectancy Gaps

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association examines the life expectancy gap between the United States and other developed nations.
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Feb 17 2016

ACA Exchange Premiums

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A brief PriceWaterhouseCooper report examines premium trends on the reform law's health insurance exchanges.
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Feb 16 2016

Redesigning the Delivery of Common Health Care

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Commonwealth Fund case study highlights efforts to reshape the treatment of common conditions.
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Feb 15 2016

Survey on Consumers and Health Care

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A survey from Finn Partners reveals actions consumers are taking in regard to their health care and health plans.
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Feb 12 2016

Who Knew; Patients With Chronic Disease Incur a Lot of Health Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
From my home state of Minnesota comes a report revealing the shocking fact that people with chronic conditions have high health spending, doh!!
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Feb 11 2016

Physician Training and Practice Variation

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A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research examines the relationship between physician training and practice variation.
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Feb 10 2016

Medicare Advantage Payments

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An Avalere analysis confirms that CMS' Medicare Advantage risk adjustment formulas don't accurately pay for seriously ill patients.
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Feb 09 2016

Pay-for-Performance and Teaching Hospitals

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Medicare's quality improvement programs may have a disproportionately negative impact on teaching hospitals.
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Feb 08 2016

What Is Going On With the Economy and Health Care?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
2016 has started out with a thud in the equity markets and that may reflect what is happening in our economy. Health care costs play a role.
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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

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August 18, 2026
Hinge Health, which manages care for musculoskeletal and migraine conditions, opens the door to gastrointestinal care with a $105 million acquisition of Cylinder Health, which focuses on managing meds and...
August 5, 2026
If you are a health care company, you too can raise astronomical sums of capital if you claim to be part of the AI wave.  Function Health demonstrates by raising...
August 3, 2026
Included Health wants no one to feel left out, so it is buying Firefly Health, which is attracted to the light of all that money.  Included Health is yet another...
July 29, 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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