Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
For the Chinese treasure fleets, voyages went progressively further from their home ports, until, some believe, they circumnavigated the globe. Before we explore the ‘other side’ of the work comp world, we need to consider what lies just out of … Continue reading Where the work comp world is heading – Part 3, just over the horizon
Read More...I posted on the growing problem of hospital costs in California a few days ago, and since then I’ve been working on a project to identify facilities to include – and exclude – from its MPN (California’s version of a … Continue reading Providers to avoid – a handy list
Read More...Prostate cancer may be one of the most over-diagnosed and over-treated conditions in the nation. It is also one of the most over-publicized, with ex-politicians (Bob Dole) and sports figures (Ed Randall) encouraging all men over 50 to get a … Continue reading Time for more science in medicine – and less marketing
Read More...Texas’ Department of Insurance has been analyzing the performance of workers comp networks for the last couple of years, and the latest report has some pretty interesting results. Unfortunately, those results look to be based on a faulty analysis, making … Continue reading Texas’ report on workers comp networks – fatally flawed?
Read More...I’ve been taking flak this week from several sources about inserting my ‘political’ views into this blog. Guilty. I’m also wondering why I didn’t hear similar complaints a few weeks ago when I was pillorying the Democrats [here here and … Continue reading What the town hall protesters should be yelling about
Read More...Hospitals have agreed to accept cuts in reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid totaling $100 billion over the next ten years, with most of the reductions coming several years from now. Another $55 billion or so will be saved from several … Continue reading Hospitals agree to reduce their costs – sort of
Read More...There are specialty managed care offerings for PT, imaging, pharmacy, home health, DME, facilities; even dental. Till now, the only type of medical spend that didn’t have a custom answer had bern diagnostic lab. That gap has now been filled. … Continue reading Diagnostic lab networks come to work comp
Read More...The health reform battle is escalating. And the President is moving to the head of the pro-reform forces. According to a piece in the NYTimes, “Ultimately, as happened with the recovery act, it will become President Obama’s plan,” the White … Continue reading Obama weighs in on health reform (at last)
Read More...A loose group of health care organizations, vendors, and providers, including hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical device makers, physicians and labor organizations, will voluntarily reduce US health care spending by $2 trillion over the next ten years. According to a White … Continue reading Health industry commits to reducing costs. No, really!
Read More...Argument two – Universal coverage would result in the government running the health care system making it worse than it is today – because the government can’t do anything right. There are two separate statements here – first that UC … Continue reading Universal coverage is bad – argument two
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