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 08 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Obama to meet union leaders who argue tax on high-end health plans will punish workers who won health benefits in hard-fought negotiations

Jan 08 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Health insurers are girding for a fight over who should regulate the new the health-care exchanges

Jan 08 2010

Reuters

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Health insurance lobbyists are pushing lawmakers to eliminate caps on profit margins and delay a hefty, industry-wide tax

Jan 08 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

House Democrats are increasingly concerned that they could be marginalized at the bargaining table

Jan 08 2010

theMobileHealthCrowd

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Vignet announced its Connected Health Services platform infrastructure for mobile health devices and services

Jan 08 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A federal takeover of services to dual eligibles would cost about $70 billion per year. For many states, a share of this amount would be the difference between chronic fiscal crisis and a balanced budget

Jan 08 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Senator Nelson wants to  provide full federal funding of the proposed expansion of Medicaid for ALL states, or allow every state the ability to opt out of the expense they would begin paying in 2017

Jan 07 2010

Information Today

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Thomson Reuters announced that it has acquired Discovery Logic, Inc., a provider of customizable analytics and decision support solutions for scientific research.

Jan 07 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Health care experts have been promoting telemedicine, video conferencing and data transfer to connect doctors to patients. But are doctors ready for this form of technology?

Jan 07 2010

PR Newswire

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

AdvancedMD® Software, Inc., a leader in medical practice and revenue cycle management automation solutions, announced it has acquired PracticeOne

  • « Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 896
  • 897
  • 898
  • 899
  • 900
  • …
  • 1,086
  • 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

Color Turquoise Health happy, as it raises $40 million in new capital to support an expansion of its business from price transparency to managing contracts for providers.  Unfortunately the price...
March 18, 2026
Eight Sleep, another one of those weird names that litter health care, raised a new round of capital which supposedly values the company at $1.5 billion.  Eight Sleep sells sleep...
March 10, 2026
Simplistically, high health spending is due to high hospital prices, which is due to excessive market power.  An article shows just how concentrated most US hospital markets are.   In...
March 10, 2026
Mental health companies are very hot.  Virtual mental health services provider Talkspace is being bought by hospital operator Universal Health for around $835 million, a high multiple of revenue and...
March 10, 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 (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