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

Headlines

Recent Health Care News

 

Mar 01 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Emergency department patients who visit because of an adverse drug event (ADE) are significantly more expensive to the health care system than other ED patients

Mar 01 2011

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Republicans said they doubted the president’s pledge to give them greater flexibility to run Medicaid

Mar 01 2011

Medpagetoday

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Strategies are needed to help patients not only to understand how to take a particular medicine but also to consolidate and simplify how to take an entire drug regimen

Feb 28 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Medicare’s Three-Day Payment Window, Demystified

Feb 28 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Here are the 10 general categories of benefits that the health law considers essential, and some services within each that could trigger debate as regulators develop rules

Feb 28 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Kiosks and automated check-in processes are making their way from the airport lobby to the doctor’s office.

Feb 28 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Congress allocated billions — the current estimate is $27 billion — in incentives for doctors and hospitals to adopt electronic records. Now, a new Congress with Republicans looking for budget cuts could take back the money.

Feb 28 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

More than half the states want permission to remove hundreds of thousands of people from the Medicaid insurance program

Feb 25 2011

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Put the legal arguments aside for the moment and focus on the real question: what happens to health reform if the individual mandate is ultimately struck down?

Feb 25 2011

govhealthit.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT hopes to demonstrate and test in late summer tools that will make it easier to share patient data, and to include them in the next stage of meaningful use criteria.

  • « Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 626
  • 627
  • 628
  • 629
  • 630
  • …
  • 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

This isn’t really surprising, given what you can see in employment and other reports.  Minnesota is one of the state’s viewed as having a bad economy, one that is either...
December 23, 2025
Angle Health, a vendor of a supposedly artificial intelligence powered health benefits platform for employers raised $134 million in new capital.  All you have to do is mention AI and...
December 4, 2025
Reema Health, which calls itself a complex care management company, reamed investors for $19 million in capital, to be used for the usual “to support growth”.  The firm works with...
December 2, 2025
Press Ganey, which provides market research for health plans and providers , is being purchased by health care survey firm Qualtrics for $6.75 billion.  Both companies claim this is all...
October 6, 2025

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