Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
Today we begin with a plea for…research. Can someone please provide evidence – that’s solid, well-documented, and not just opinion based on…common knowledge that employees file lots of claims under work comp that SHOULD be considered non-occ? Or that Obamacare … Continue reading Friday fast facts, catch-up, and debunking
Read More...Uncertainty. That’s the best way to describe health insurance execs’ views on their business these days. The massively-screwed-up-but-steadily-improving rollout of the federal exchange is the biggest reason for that uncertainty, but there’d be huge uncertainty even if things had gone … Continue reading The health insurance world in 2014 – lots of uncertainty but no death spiral
Read More...It’s that time of year – I get to revisit my predictions for 2013, an often-humbling experience for someone who spends far too much time out on the bleeding edge. So, here goes. Vendor consolidation – I said “we ain’t … Continue reading Predictions for work comp in 2013 – how did I do?
Read More...That’s the title of a talk I’m giving today at the New York Academy of Medicine. There’s a lot of discussion around the major changes associated with health reform; access to care concerns, fear of adverse selection, provider and payer … Continue reading The other ways health care will change
Read More...The transaction count just got larger; work comp PT industry founder MedRisk has just acquired imaging company MDIA. The deal adds an entirely new product line to MedRisk’s existing physical medicine management offerings, one with a national network of … Continue reading Another work comp transaction is done
Read More...It is NO secret that opioids are an issue for the workers’ compensation industry – the cost of the average lost-time claim with long acting opioids 900% higher than those without. What is a secret is why there’s a picture … Continue reading Survey – Opioids and Workers’ Compensation
Read More...Hard as it is to believe, the world kept turning while MCM was on vacation, with nary a wobble to mark our hiatus. Here’s a quick summary of things that happened while we were away… Medicare physician reimbursement Congress may … Continue reading Quick catch-up on the events of the week
Read More...We can all agree on something – No one – and I mean NO ONE – thinks PPACA aka Obamacare is the perfect solution to the health care insurance, cost, and quality mess. Liberals decry it for the failure to … Continue reading Ideological blinders, work comp, and Obamacare – part 9 of 9
Read More...After a brief diversion yesterday to focus on breaking news and research, it’s back to the impact of health reform on comp, with today’s post delving in to cost-shifting. Cost-shifting is a general term for provider behavior involving seeking more … Continue reading Obamacare and workers’ comp – part 4 of 9; cost shifting
Read More...For most, the federal budget sequestration (that’s the event, sequester is the verb, as in “to sequester, thanks Gary) has yet to make itself felt. For some, it’s all too real; one person’s waste is another person’s livelihood. Here’s a … Continue reading Sequestration’s impact on health care
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