Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
With the unwinding of Medicaid post-COVID emergency, rural healthcare is falling deeper into financial trouble. Consulting form Chartis just published their review of rural healthcare…among the findings The unwinding issue is exacerbating problems in states that failed to expand Medicaid…the … Continue reading Rural hospitals – and healthcare – are in deep trouble.
Read More...With all the craziness in the world, its easy to miss some of the good things that are happening…stuff that makes life just a little better. The gubmint is actually making progress…on those incredibly annoying junk fees. Overdraft and other … Continue reading Good news Friday!!
Read More...The giant subsidiary of United Healthcare employs [>]90,000 MDs and 40,000 more advanced practice clinicians – far more than any other entity. That’s more than one out of every ten physicians, and a far higher percentage of practicing MDs. While … Continue reading Optum employs(?) more doctors than any other organization
Read More...Whether you’re chatting around the grill, conversing at a swim meet or hockey game, or between quarters of a football game, here’s the real scoop on the economy, with immediate responses to show you’re the one with the real story. … Continue reading Facts for this weekend’s chats!
Read More...Or, it is a GREAT time to be a monoline carrier. The property & casualty insurance business is a tale of two extremes, with work comp profits offsetting losses across all other lines. That’s one reason multi-line insurers are dragging … Continue reading Profit shifting aka work comp is funding the P&C industry’s losses.
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...A just-released study found striking differences in death rates from COVID based on political party affiliation. The study reviewed “538,159 deaths in individuals aged 25 years and up in Florida and Ohio between March 2020 and December 2021…” more from … Continue reading Scary stuff…COVID death details
Read More...RAND’s long-awaited research paper on Alternative Payment Models for California Workers’ Comp is out. It is…underwhelming, incomplete, doesn’t focus on key metrics, did not include actual examples of APMs in WC (of which there are many), makes inappropriate comparisons, and…I could … Continue reading RAND’s report on Alternative payment models in work comp…oh my…
Read More...Healthcare costs for the average family of four topped $31,000 in 2023. That’s the latest from Milliman. Think about that – what percentage of your annual income is $31,000? a third? a quarter? a fifth? to calculate your total costs, … Continue reading Quick hits….
Read More...Texas has some rather troubling healthcare problems…and Texas’ legislators are asking the state’s largest workers’ comp insurer to help solve those problems. First, a few Texas healthcare data points… more Texans are uninsured than in any other state, access to … Continue reading Can Texas Mutual help Texas’ health insurance/healthcare needs?
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