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

Headlines

Recent Health Care News

 

Oct 13 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

If you knew you had one year to live, would you have medical tests you didn’t need?  Turns out a surprising number of patients with late-stage cancer get useless screening tests for new cancers that couldn’t possibly kill them.

Oct 13 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

More recent evidence suggests that telemedicine technology could, in fact, be an antidote for the high cost of providing care in ICUs and other healthcare settings

Oct 13 2010

NPR.org

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Insurers Prod Patients To Pick Doctor And Hospitals That Offer ‘Value’

Oct 13 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Authorities of New York have promised more than $200 billion worth of health benefits to their retirees while setting aside almost nothing, putting the public work force on a collision course

Oct 12 2010

BusinessWire

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Vocera Communications, Inc., the leading provider of point-of-care communication solutions, today announced two acquisitions: Clinical Health Communications, makers of OptiVox, and Integrated Voice Solutions, makers of VoiceCare

Oct 12 2010

Politico

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A handful of governors are beginning to seriously flex their muscles in attempts to block the federal health reform law by rejecting grants or legislative action

Oct 12 2010

amednews.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Preventing a 23% Medicare physician payment cut is one of several major tasks Congress faces when members return Nov. 15

Oct 12 2010

US News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

End-of-life care for heart failure patients is becoming more expensive, but hospice and outpatient services show potential for reducing those costs

Oct 12 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Pharmacy benefit managers and insurers are going all “Minority Report” — they’re attempting to predict when people will stop taking their meds or develop medical problems before they even do so.

Oct 12 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Advanced information technology designed to improve patient care appears to be effective in reducing hospitalizations and re-hospitalizations

  • « Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 707
  • 708
  • 709
  • 710
  • 711
  • …
  • 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

  • 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