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Jan 19 2015

Hospital-Acquired Infections Reduction Program

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Medicare initiative to reduce hospital-acquired conditions has shown progress on some but not on others.
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Jan 16 2015

Survey Regarding Worksite Health Centers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The National Association of Worksite Health Centers releases a survey regarding company clinics.
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Jan 15 2015

Venture Funding and Exits in the Fourth Quarter and 2014

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Full year stats from the National Venture Capital Association show an invigorated market for financings and exits.
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Jan 14 2015

A Long-term History of Health Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A blog post by the Altarum Institute takes a really long look at the history of health spending in the United States.
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Jan 13 2015

Employer-Sponsored Health Plan Cost Index

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A report from Truven Health Analytics gives trends on health spending in employer-sponsored plans.
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Jan 12 2015

Medical Scribes

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
One of the unintended consequences of all the requirements to use HIT has been the creation and growth of a whole new category of health care employee--the medical scribe.
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Jan 09 2015

Workplace Clinic Performance

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Towers Watson brief looks at the results from an onsite health clinic at BP America's headquarters, finding it appeared to have the potential to reduce spending, but did not…
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Jan 08 2015

Why Has Medicare Spending Slowed?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Medicare spending, like overall health spending, has been lower for the last few years than was originally projected. A Kaiser Family Foundation brief attempts to understand factors behind the slowdown.
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Jan 07 2015

Survey on Private Exchanges

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Employer views on private health insurance exchanges were the subject of a recent survey by the Private Exchange Evaluation Cooperative.
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Jan 06 2015

Once More into the Breach on Geographical Spending Variation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Yet another approach to understanding the sources of geographic health spending variation in a paper from the NBER.
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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...
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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...
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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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