Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
The workers comp PPO is dead. Well, dying. The era of large, national PPOs delivering a single generic discount-based model is coming to a close. Payers are finding that their medical costs are still going up; their managed care fees … Continue reading Workers Comp PPOs are dead
Read More...Lots of good stuff to start your weekend… First a California Senate Committee passed a bill to protect workers from heat-related injuries. SB1299 establishes a presumption that: a heat-related injury that develops within a specified timeframe after working outdoors for an … Continue reading Good news Friday – protecting workers and an improving economy
Read More...It’s happening sooner than expected…a new entrant into the workers’ comp insurance business (following other P&C lines by companies including Omnius) is pursuing regulatory approval for and licensure of an “AIdjuster”. Notably this goes far beyond current thinking, described in a … Continue reading “AI-djusters” are becoming a reality.
Read More...Friends and colleagues Yvonne Guibert and Rafael Gonzalez went waaaay out on a limb and asked me to do another podcast. I was all over the place, but Yvonne and Rafe were kind enough – and smart enough to rein … Continue reading Deconstructing Comp Pod!
Read More...Medicaid Checking in on Medicaid…41 states have expanded Medicaid, and by dribs and drabs some of the holdouts are moving to do the same. Georgia may well be the next state to follow suit; a court recently ruled in favor … Continue reading Good news Friday – fixing past mistakes, more progress on Medicaid, and lower drug prices
Read More...To know why some think the US healthcare system is going to get better and cheaper – and why I strongly disagree, read on. David Cutler PhD led off the WCRI’s confab with a discussion of the future of healthcare. … Continue reading WCRI – What’s happening with healthcare – better days ahead, or collapse?
Read More...Vennela Thumula PharmD and Randy Lea, MD doves into the presence and influence of psychosocial factors on recivery. Dr Thumula led off by noting psychosocial barriers are the number one obstacle to recovery. A variety of factors are barriers including: … Continue reading WCRI Day One – psychosocial factors’ impact on functional improvements
Read More...Ramona Tanabe, CEO of WCRI – a most excellent workers’ comp research organization – was kind enough to carve out a few minutes on the eve of this year’s gathering of the brainiacs to answer a few of your reporter’s … Continue reading Ramona Tanabe on WCRI’s annual confab.
Read More...Here’s stuff to brighten your day… Our cities and rural areas are getting safer. Overall crime rates have dropped – a lot… unless you own a Kia or Hyundai. Murder rates are dropping as well Net – safer cities and … Continue reading Good news Friday!
Read More...We Americans pay much more for drugs than anyone else. Those very high prices are a major contributor to increasing health insurance premiums and Federal and state budgets. Across the political spectrum, Americans support more government regulation of drug pricing. … Continue reading Drug prices and the power of consensus.
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