Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
Automated Healthcare Solutions, their execs and affiliates contributed $1.7 million to political campaigns over the last two years. If anyone has any doubts about the financial returns enjoyed by the physician dispensing business, yesterday’s report in Health News Florida should … Continue reading Workers comp, drug dispensing, political contributions, and jobs
Read More...If you want to know why you are getting more physician bills with meds on them, it’s simple – physician dispensing generates big profits.
Read More...Prescription drug costs in workers comp are driven by utilization and price – how many pills and how much they cost. Oh, and by the physicians who prescribe the pills, based on what the patient needs. We hope. Into this … Continue reading Drug dispensing by docs
Read More...WCRI’s latest report on drugs in workers’ comp has some excellent news…opioid usage dropped 29% from Q1 2021 to Q1 2023. WCRI’s data is from 28 study states representing the vast majority of workers’ comp drug spend. It may well … Continue reading Solving pain – opioids, NSAIDs, and better options
Read More...In a key step to help protect workers from excessive heat, OSHA’s Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH) met to review a draft rule’s initial regulatory framework. While we wait for OSHA’s rule-making process to wend its way … Continue reading Heat exposure – OSHA makes progress and a Simple Question.
Read More...Good decision to add three very different employers to the conference; Publix, Disney and Duke University. [As a Syracuse alum, I thought WCRI could’ve made a better choice than Duke…] Here’s my quick take…there was a ton of content with … Continue reading WCRI – Employers weigh in…
Read More...This email arrived earlier this week; I really enjoyed your newsletters until you started showing your political side; It’s unfortunate that you had to make that known to your audience. I’ll leave aside the fact that I’ve been “showing my … Continue reading Walls or windows?
Read More...Isn’t a problem. In most states. Today. That is the headline takeaway from WCRI’s presentation last week… First a few key factors. Drug spend is a much lower percentage of total medical today than it was a decade ago. I’m … Continue reading Medical inflation in work comp…
Read More...Is an apt metaphor for my ongoing and – so far – futile effort to get industry “thought leaders” to focus on the impact of human-caused climate change on worker health – and workers’ comp. But, never one to admit … Continue reading Tilting at windmills
Read More...Yesterday we posted on top takeaways from our 18th Survey of Prescription Drug Management in Workers’ Comp. Today, I’M responding to several readers’ questions about physician dispensing (PDD) and mail order pharmacies (twin sons of different mothers) and why they … Continue reading Drugs and worker’s comp, part 2
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