Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
Florida is scheduled to dramatically change the way hospitals get paid to care for workers comp patients, and if payers don’t get their act together, they’re going to be paying more – a lot more – for medical care. WorkCompCentral … Continue reading Clarification – Last chance to avoid higher comp costs in Florida
Read More...Paraphrasing Sen Ron Wyden (D OR) produces the most accurate soundbite description of the House’ health reform bill. Is this the best we can do? If the answer is yes, we’re in deeper trouble than even I thought. I’m really … Continue reading Big on health, light on reform
Read More...That’s what it is going to cost to ‘fix’ Medicare’s physician reimbursement problem. A bill introduced into the Senate, and now scheduled for a vote within days would eliminate the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) program (which determines, or is … Continue reading A Quarter Trillion Dollars – from where?
Read More...Over the last few weeks, all the media focus (as well as here at MCM) has been on the Senate Finance Committee’s health reform legislation, aka the Baucus bill. Now that the eponymous bill has been voted out of committee, … Continue reading The Baucus bill is out of committee…and that means exactly what?
Read More...Reform – whether it happens this year, in ten years, in one big change or a series of smaller steps – is going to have a big impact on workers comp. That’s the takeaway from one of the sessions yesterday … Continue reading Health reform and workers comp – the view from IAIABC
Read More...Today’s Washington Post reports that Sens. Enzi and Grassley have asked Sen Baucua to consider a lengthy list of changes to his health reform bill, changes that include elimination of state funding for the expansion of Medicaid, reduction or elimination … Continue reading Health reform – it’s not looking good…
Read More...President Obama’s speech Wednesday night clarified what he will, and won’t, accept from Congress. It also was politically artful, mollifying the liberal Democrats while borrowing from Republican positions in an effort to give just enough to each to keep the … Continue reading Health reform – a speech too late?
Read More...Last week I posted on the pending change in pharmacy pricing that will reduce prices by about 4% for most brand drugs. The pharmacy and big food-and-drug chains are negotiating with the big PBMs; they are seeking ‘cost neutrality’; that … Continue reading The coming change in drug pricing
Read More...It’s quite clear the public plan option is not going to be part of any health reform bill, if any health reform bill is passed. This despite the announcement yesterday that sixty progressive/Democrat members of Congress signed a document that … Continue reading Could we please just stop talking about the public plan option?
Read More...Yesterday we examined the potential impact on insurers and insureds of a failure to pass meaningful comprehensive health reform . Today we’ll look at the effect on providers. Again, we’ll leave aside the possibility of individual bills addressing physician compensation … Continue reading If health reform fails, part 2 – the providers
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