A study at a single hospital examined whether an intensive bundled payment effort would reduce readmissions for COPD patients. Despite the intervention, readmission rates were no different for the bundled payment patients, and while there were slight cost savings, they likely were outweighed by the cost of the intervention.
In another large contract research organization merger, INC Research and InVentiv Health will merge, with the combined company worth over $7.4 million.
HealthReveal pulls back the curtain on an $11.3 million financing round. The company, yawn, has an analytics platform which does supposed real-time identification of at-risk patients.
A large PE firm is buying employee health and other benefits brokerage OneDigital Health and Benefits.
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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. 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.
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. 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.