Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
You need to know basic stuff about Medicaid because: Medicaid may well become the model for your health insurance It covers more working-age people than any other payment type Your state and federal tax dollars pay for Medicaid. So, here … Continue reading Medicaid – what you need to know
Read More...President Trump announced two major policy changes yesterday; one will do little to affect healthcare markets and insurance, the other will have a drastic and almost immediate impact. Cost Sharing Reimbursement payments help those making less than 250% of the … Continue reading Trump’s ACA Orders – One’s big news, the other’s just political fluff
Read More...You get more for your money this fortnight! The Senate Republicans’ release of their repeal-and-replace bill – plus our usual plethora of wisdom from health care experts, gives you a double-value today – the first in the history of HealthWonkReview! … Continue reading HWR – The double edition
Read More...Today MCM is honored to bring you a guest post authored by the Sedgwick Institute’s Rick Victor, PhD. Rick is the former CEO of the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute, and a colleague and friend as well. The post begins below; emphasis … Continue reading Trump, Immigration, and Healthcare providers
Read More...Well, that didn’t take very long… Hard as it is to believe, Health Wonk Review has been around for a decade. Yup, since way back in the DSL days, before the birth of the iPhone, before the Great Recession, before health … Continue reading Health Wonk Review – The Tenth Anniversary Edition!
Read More...Turns out one reason the small employer mandate has been delayed is the Feds are incorporating a national “single payer” work comp program that is not quite ready for prime time. The POWER (Protecting Our Workers and Ensuring Reemployment) program, which … Continue reading Obamacare exchanges to be used for work comp enrollment
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...We can all agree on something – No one – and I mean NO ONE – thinks PPACA aka Obamacare is the perfect solution to the health care insurance, cost, and quality mess. Liberals decry it for the failure to … Continue reading Ideological blinders, work comp, and Obamacare – part 9 of 9
Read More...Actually, it was. Faithful readers will note the delay in this biweek’s publication of HWR, a delay that was not an oversight but intentional; like many of you I’ve been waiting breathlessly for news of the Supreme Court’s pending decision … Continue reading Health Wonk Review isn’t waiting for the Supremes…
Read More...This was the tenth year NCCI Chief Actuary Dennis Mealy gave the State of the Line presentation (I’ll post the link when it’s available). Claim frequency – on an adjusted basis – was down slightly (a single point). This continues … Continue reading NCCI – the state of the line 2012
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