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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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Apr 20 2015

Physician EHR Survey

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Accenture surveyed physicians in six countries regarding use of health information technology.
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Apr 17 2015

Employee Survey on Health Benefits

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Benz Communications conducted a survey of employees on views of employee health benefits.
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Apr 16 2015

Incentives and Wellness Program Participation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A brief from the Employee Benefit Research Institute examines the role of incentives in participation in wellness programs.
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Apr 15 2015

Drug Use by Exchange Enrollees

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A report from large Blue Cross plan-owned PBM Prime Therapeutics discusses medication use by insurance exchange enrollees.
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Apr 14 2015

Health Spending is Rising More Rapidly

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The latest Altarum Institue health spending and health price briefs reveal a continuing more rapid rise in spending, driven by a sharp uptick in hospital costs.
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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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