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

Headlines

Recent Health Care News

 

Sep 28 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The American College of Physicians has offered ethical guidelines for using incentives to promote personal responsibility for health

Sep 28 2010

The Hill

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Four lawmakers say the steep cuts to Medicare Advantage under the new reform law will cause many plans to fold, while many others will be forced to drop benefits to remain profitable.

Sep 28 2010

dallasnews.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Higher medical claims, an aging workforce and reverberations from a new health care law will lead to an expected 9 percent health care cost increase for Dallas employers next year, according to a study released Monday

Sep 28 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The GAO  announced the appointment of 19 members to the board of governors for the new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute designed to review relevant evidence on health condition prevention, diagnosis and treatment

Sep 28 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

As providers heatedly debate whether providing intense patient “support” saves healthcare dollars, a study of 174,120 patients concludes that it does—by about $6 per person per month

Sep 28 2010

CDC

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

CDC:  From January through March 2010, 46.7 million persons of all ages (15.4%) were uninsured

Sep 28 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Women pay more than men for haircuts and dry cleaning. Now, a new study has found that they also pay more for being obese.

Sep 28 2010

nextgov.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Health IT systems are critical to the success of patient-centered medical home models for health care, a new study finds.

Sep 28 2010

US News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A new Internet-based tool can more accurately predict stroke patients’ risk of dying in the hospital and help their doctors develop better care plans, according to a new Canadian study

Sep 28 2010

Boston.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Massachusetts is developing a specific plan for switching to a new cost-conscious payment system – the system, called global payments, would require doctors, hospitals, and other providers to band together into group ACO’s

  • « Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 720
  • 721
  • 722
  • 723
  • 724
  • …
  • 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

InStride Health hit the ground running, well maybe walking, as it raised $30 million in additional capital for its pediatric mental health business.  Children’s mental health would be just fine...
June 17, 2026
GoHealth is another of those excessively valued health startups that was always destined to flounder and not it has filed bankruptcy and the company will be turned over to lenders....
June 8, 2026
Garner Health isn’t gathering any accolades from me, as it raises a new round of $100 million in capital at about a $2.5 billion valuation.   The company supposedly steers...
June 2, 2026
IKS Health, a British company with a US subsidiary that offers “care enablement” and mentions AI, of course,  is buying TruBridge for $557 million.  TruBridge offers revenue cycle management and...
April 30, 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 (1844) 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