Skip to main content
Healthy Skeptic
search
Menu
  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research
  • Useful Links
  • About & Contact
  • Podcasts
  • search
Close Search

Headlines

Recent Health Care News

 

Aug 17 2011

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Health Care Prognosis Better With Digital Law: Peter Orszag

Aug 16 2011

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Hospitals and radiology practices around the United States have increasingly begun using high-tech CT scans to screen people for lung cancer despite intense disagreement about whether the testing should be done widely

Aug 16 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Using cellphones to broadcast text messages reminding health workers in Kenya how to treat children’s malaria increased the number of cases handled correctly

Aug 16 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Medicaid Pays Less Than Medicare for Many Prescription Drugs, U.S. Report Finds

Aug 16 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Federal dollars should be used to screen Medicare beneficiaries for depression and for alcohol misuse under two rules proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Aug 16 2011

Chicago Tribune

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The legal fate of President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law will likely come down to two Republican appointees on the U.S. Supreme Court — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Aug 15 2011

Reuters

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Three years before Medicaid is due to cover millions of uninsured Americans, state funding cuts may be undermining how much care the government-run health insurance program for the poor will offer new enrollees.

Aug 15 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Federal Trade Commission has issued an advisory opinion questioning a proposed New York State law intended to make it easier for neighborhood drug stores to compete with mail-order pharmacies.

Aug 15 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Once again, the SGR payment formula calls for deep reductions in Medicare payment rates, which has been continually delayed. Unless Congress intervenes, the SGR formula will mandate a 29.5% cut in the Medicare physician payment rate on Jan. 1

Aug 15 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Of inpatient Medicare claims for internists, the proportion handled by hospitalists jumped from about 9 percent in 1995 to about 37 percent in 2006.

  • « Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 528
  • 529
  • 530
  • 531
  • 532
  • …
  • 1,085
  • Next »

✅ Receive notifications of new posts by email.

About this Blog

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.

Healthy Skeptic Podcast

Research

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

Mental health is a very hot health care investment area.  Talkiatry raised $210 million in new capital for its virtual mental health services which utilizes employed psychiatrists, psychologists and other...
February 13, 2026
Investors can take comfort in Solace Health, which provides “advocates” to members in health plans, as it raises a fresh $130 million in capital, which takes its alleged value over...
February 11, 2026
Two health care companies moving in opposite directions reported financial results.  Hinge Health, which offers musculoskeletal condition services, reported strong revenue and earnings growth and projected continued rapid rises in...
February 11, 2026
And here is why I often wonder what investors are thinking when they make large investments in companies with dubious businesses.  Carbon Health was going to open hundreds of primary...
February 5, 2026

Tags

Access (89) ACO (165) Care Management (268) Chronic Disease (216) Comparative Effectiveness (81) Consumer Directed Health (71) Consumers (514) Devices (168) Disease Management (149) Drugs (605) EHRs (145) Elder Care (149) End-of-Life Care (97) FDA (85) Financings (1843) Genomics (80) Government (357) Health Care Costs (1428) Health Care Quality (616) Health Care Reform (1227) Health Insurance (1116) Health Insurance Exchange (162) HIT (478) HomeCare (76) Hospital (490) Hospital Readmissions (79) Legislation (78) M&A (1723) Malpractice (84) Meaningful Use (105) Medicaid (334) Medical Care (346) Medicare (607) Medicare Advantage (80) Mobile (89) Pay For Performance (92) Pharmaceutical (211) Physicians (569) Providers (252) Regulation (72) Repealing Reform (133) Telehealth (79) Telemedicine (325) Wellness and Prevention (316) Workplace (117)

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.

Categories

  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research

Useful Links

  • Congressional Budget Office
  • Health Affairs

RSS Feed

RSS feed

© 2026 Healthy Skeptic.

  • twitter
  • facebook
  • linkedin
Close Menu
  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research
  • Useful Links
  • About & Contact
  • Podcasts