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

Headlines

Recent Health Care News

 

Jan 12 2011

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Even as states grappled with crippling budget deficits and the political fallout of the deeply divisive health care overhaul, they maintained high rates of coverage for children in low-income families

Jan 12 2011

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The CBO Is Telling Us Something. Is Anybody Listening?

Jan 12 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he wants to redesign and shrink the state’s Medicaid program by copying a cost-cutting model used in Wisconsin. A review of Wisconsin’s efforts to contain Medicaid spending, however, shows little evidence of savings.

Jan 12 2011

Las Vegas Review

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Business boosters are increasingly pushing medical tourism as a remedy for Las Vegas’ economic ailments,

Jan 12 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Hospitals with multi-bed intensive care units are well advised to convert to single bed private rooms with their own sinks – a study that found such a transition resulted in a 54% decline in rates for three types of hospital-acquired bacterial infections.

Jan 12 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Those reading the tea leaves on how the Supreme Court will judge the health-care overhaul may want to examine a dissent filed by two conservative justices this morning in a case involving the Constitution’s Commerce Clause.

Jan 12 2011

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

While the law outlines 10 broad categories of coverage — among them hospital and emergency services, prescription drugs, childbirth and pediatric care – it leaves the specifics to the government.

Jan 11 2011

PR Newswire

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Surgical Information Systems, a leader in perioperative information systems, announced that Norwest Equity Partners, a leading middle-market equity investment firm, has acquired the Company

Jan 11 2011

Center for Public Integrity

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Although the federal government is directing billions of dollars to get electronic health record technology into hospitals and clinics nationwide, some doctors and small clinics indicate they’re unlikely to meet the goal

Jan 11 2011

PR Newswire

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

CareCentrix, Inc. announced today that it has acquired Sleep Management Solutions, LLC (SMS), a company specializing in sleep benefits management.

  • « Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 652
  • 653
  • 654
  • 655
  • 656
  • …
  • 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