Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
So, hard as it is to believe, there was some non-Supreme Court hearing stuff going on this week. I know…I missed most of it too. So, here’s some of the most important research we all missed while overloading incoming web … Continue reading Research Roundup – Friday edition
Read More...Is not the occasional worker cashing checks s/he shouldn’t, or bowling while fully disabled, or double dipping. No, it’s: employers going without insurance coverage so workers and taxpayers foot the bill, providers scamming the system to make millions, and a … Continue reading The real fraud in workers’ comp
Read More...I (virtually) sat down with WCRI CEO John Ruser PhD last week to catch up on his first year at the Institute and get a preview of next month’s WCRI Conference. (Registration is here) MCM – Talk about the last … Continue reading Four questions for WCRI’s Dr John Ruser
Read More...A bill before the US House and Senate would have required physicians and pharmacists to check state databases before prescribing or dispensing opioids. All available research shows this is the single most effective step to reduce opioid abuse and kill fewer … Continue reading You broke it, you own it.
Read More...Health care costs accounted for 17.5% of GDP last year after a 5.3% increase in spending. The overall spending increase, which followed 5 years of relatively low inflation, was attributed primarily to the addition of 8.7 million people to the rolls … Continue reading Health care spending up 5.3% in 2014
Read More...Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs are state-based databases containing patient, prescriber, and pharmacy-specific information on controlled substances. 49 states have PDMPs; the lone holdout is Missouri, due to a whack job legislator who’s totally unfounded worries about privacy are preventing the … Continue reading PDMPs – what they are and why you should care.
Read More...Some blame “Obamacare” for pretty much everything; high insurance costs, increasing deductibles, access issues (real and imagined), narrow networks with fewer physicians, hospital closures, global warming (oh, wait, no such thing). And worst of all, this is all due to the … Continue reading There’s no such thing as an “Obamacare” health plan
Read More...It’s a big day for we commie socialists; hope your International Workers’ Day is filled with tributes to the proletariat… Workers’ comp While the world was at RIMS, I was otherwise engaged. Heard from several folks that the MedRisk event was … Continue reading May Day catch-up
Read More...Yesterday ProPublica published the first in what is apparently a series of articles on the workers comp systems around the country. This first effort focused on ‘reforms’ and generally indicated these are driven by big employers seeking to cut workers … Continue reading ProPublica’s demolition of workers’ comp
Read More...Greg Jones has done a masterful job finding out just who is manufacturing the new “novel” drugs being dispensed by docs to workers’ comp claimants. In his piece in today’s WorkCompCentral, Jones finds there are just seven companies manufacturing the three novel … Continue reading Drugs dispensed by docs may well be dangerous
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