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

Headlines

Recent Health Care News

 

Jul 05 2011

FoxBusiness

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

As healthcare costs for the poor soar across the United States, perhaps no state will feel the loss of federal stimulus money more than Florida.

Jul 01 2011

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Blacks hospitalized for strokes in the District are one-third as likely as whites to receive lifesaving treatment, according to a study that seeks to understand racial disparities in treatment.

Jul 01 2011

PR Newswire

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Sedgwick CMS Completes Acquisition of Nationwide Better Health Productivity Solutions

Jul 01 2011

The Insurance Nation

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Influential conservative judge supports health insurance mandate

Jul 01 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Health Guru Media aims to be a comprehensive health video resource, with a library of more than 2,250 titles covering more than 100 different health conditions,

Jul 01 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Lung-Cancer Screening Unknowns: Who Should Get it, How Much it Will Cost

Jul 01 2011

USA Today

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Patients pay as much as 683% more for the same medical procedures, such as MRIs or CT scans, in the same town, depending on which doctor they choose,

Jun 30 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A recent statistical brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shines a light on just how wide the gap is between rural and non-rural EDs.

Jun 30 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Local Laws Fighting Fat Under Siege

Jun 30 2011

GovhealthIT

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released an interim final rule that describes the standard set of information for two electronic health transactions

  • « Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 555
  • 556
  • 557
  • 558
  • 559
  • …
  • 1,087
  • 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

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
Telehealth is still going strong and whenever possible the companies in the field talk about AI.  Doctronic has an “AI Doctor” which you can visit and it is acquiring Summer...
July 29, 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 (1845) 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 (1725) 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

  • Health Affairs
  • Congressional Budget Office

RSS Feed

RSS feed

© 2026 Healthy Skeptic.

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