Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
Healthcare will be the most significant near-term impact of this election. If Joe Biden wins and the Dems take the Senate, here’s what we can expect. Biden’s healthcare plan addresses the biggest problems with the ACA (known to some as Obamacare). … Continue reading The Biden Healthcare plan explained – briefly
Read More...Another whirlwind week is just about over, and with it the summer of 2020. Here’s important/interesting news that came across my virtual desktop this week. COVID and Comp More data on workers’ comp COVID19 claims is coming in; Virginia’s Workers’ … Continue reading Friday fact day – COVID19 update, job losses, more uninsured, and executive move
Read More...Well, yes – but it’s not intentional. Most medical practices have seen a sharp drop in patient visits – and revenues – due to patient concern over COVID19 exposure. Hospitals have also suffered, as have ancillary providers, and many are … Continue reading Are health insurers profiting while providers suffer?
Read More...COVID19 is morphing, affecting different regions differently, infecting a different age cohort, and perhaps mutating. What should workers’ comp service providers do? Pay attention to the facts. Not the politicized nonsense from people who should know better, but the facts. … Continue reading The stuff is hitting the fan
Read More...Hospitals are drowning in red ink. In many states, workers’ comp is the lifeline. Privately-insured patients are avoiding hospitals while those facilities have spent huge dollars to buy PPE, make modifications, and ensure they are ready for a COVID19 patient … Continue reading It’s the facility costs, folks.
Read More...Three key takeaways from this week’s COVID19 news. Do we KNOW how bad things are, who’s dying, and Remdesivir. Do we know how many are infected, the death rate, and the number hospitalized/in the ICU/on ventilators? No. We are three … Continue reading COVID19 catch up
Read More...As the coronavirus continues its relentless march, hospitals and health systems are getting crushed. With elective procedures banned in many states, the profitable patients hospitals relied on to generate profits have disappeared. Meanwhile, expenses related to preparing for COVID19 patients … Continue reading Watch those facility costs…
Read More...In less than 4 months, COVID19 has killed more of us than died in the Vietnam war’s 11 years. Some have stated this is a “great success story.” Healthcare providers may not see this as such a great success, as … Continue reading COVID catch-up
Read More...We are three months into the COVID pandemic, and the impact on workers’ compensation is altering the entire industry in ways unimaginable just weeks ago (early takeaways are here). (before we jump into this, you have to watch a few … Continue reading COVID’s impact on workers’ comp – part 3
Read More...The time to shut the country down is now. The infection rate just increased 5-fold in 4 days; if that continues, by Wednesday – 4 days from now – there will be 125,000 confirmed cases. A week from tomorrow there … Continue reading We are out of time.
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