Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
Happy spring – hope the weather where you are is as great as it is in the northeast…we finally get to tell our friends in Florida that things are just fine, thank you. Off we go to catch you up … Continue reading Friday catch-up
Read More...Yikes – where did the week go? Apologies for not keeping up with the daily blogging – too darn much paying work these days. Alas… So here are a few quick takes. Prime Health got $8 million in debt financing … Continue reading Friday catch-up and quick takes
Read More...WCRI’s Thursday morning begins with a series of presentations and discussions on the impact of PPACA/Obamacare on workers’ comp. According to WC Executive Director Rick Victor, “Few pieces of legislation have the potential to affect people both financially and personally … Continue reading The Affordable Care Act and Work Comp – WCRI’s view
Read More...Held again in Boston, WCRI’s annual meeting is one of the better research-focused events on the annual calendar. It always includes a timely topic as well as a deep dive into key issues explored by the geniuses at WCRI; we … Continue reading WCRI’s annual confab – a month away
Read More...Physician dispensing – it’s not just for Americans any more! From the Harvard Business Review comes this item; Chinese docs prescribe waaaay too many antibiotics – because that’s how they make money. Antibiotics are often prescribed unnecessarily for colds in … Continue reading Friday catch-up and fast reads
Read More...Happy December. While we were doing all things Thanksgivukkah, the world continued. Here are the “high”-lights. Such as they are. The deadline to “fix” the federal health care exchange passed; with White House officials declaring: it never really was a … Continue reading What happened while we were focused on important stuff
Read More...There’s been a lot of yelling about insurance costs under PPACA/Obamacare of late, most of which is uninformed, unintelligible, ideologically based or just plain wrong. Here’s the scoop. As of 8/30, 17 states and DC have released comprehensive rates for … Continue reading Health insurance costs under PPACA…not what you’ve heard
Read More...$1.7 billion in workers’ comp drug costs are for drugs dispensed by physicians. Why don’t the big retail pharmacies care about physician dispensing in workers’ comp? Why isn’t Walgreens, and CVS, and Rite-Aid, and Medicine Shoppe up in arms about … Continue reading Pharmacies’ self interest v silos v ignorance
Read More...Today brings another in our random reports on progress and stumbles in implementing reform, starting and running Exchanges, and sussing out the reality from the BS. It looks like there will be more competition for individual insurance come 2014 than … Continue reading Implementing health reform, random report 1
Read More...This biweekly edition of health Wonk Review covers the recent news that health care cost inflation has moderated, digs into various aspects of ACA implementation, and provides insights on a couple other timely topics. Read on! Health care cost trends … Continue reading HWR on health care cost trends, reform implementation, and motivations
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