Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
I wrote my first post on opioids and workers’ comp. Almost two decades later, the post – which was really an excerpt from a Workers’ Comp Insider blog post – is terrifyingly prescient. Interesting item from Workers Comp Insider today: … Continue reading 19 years ago
Read More...It doesn’t generate profits for the medical-industrial complex. From a societal perspective primary care is wildly undervalued – and wildly under-appreciated – because primary care doesn’t make money for anyone, especially primary care providers. Which makes no sense on every front … Continue reading The problem with primary care?
Read More...The work comp Pharmacy Benefit Management business has become hyper-competitive; total drug spend has dropped 6 of the last 7 years, there’s been massive consolidation of PBMs, margins are declining…all signs of a very mature industry. Sounds like a not-very-attractive-business…right? Well, … Continue reading A creative way to generate work comp PBM revenue.
Read More...Once again children have been killed. Yesterday’s slaughter of little children cut me to the heart, coming the day after I spent hours watching our granddaughter. Hours of delight, wonder, love, joy and promise. Sitting together in a swing as … Continue reading This is about your children.
Read More...You may have noticed President Biden’s request for $15 billion in additional funds to cover vaccines, anti-virals and other COVID-related needs failed. Fortunately, it’s back on the table. Unfortunately, part of the funding may come from work comp payers. The … Continue reading Work comp payers and COVID legislation funding…
Read More...I cannot stand that statement…yet it is spot on. I’ve been posting on this for some time, often feeling like Cassandra. Healthcare staffing shortages are fast approaching crisis levels, with major implications for each of us. From ModernHealthcare: As of … Continue reading I told you so.
Read More...A long list of real and very difficult problems face California’s legislators; no where on that list is worker’s compensation. Work comp premiums are at an all time low, injured workers have no trouble accessing care, are generally satisfied, benefits … Continue reading A really bad idea
Read More...Several commenters purporting to be chronic pain patients responded to my post about the AMA’s bemoaning CDC’s opioid guidelines. Their stories were tragic; heartfelt; full of pain, suffering, and grief. All decried the CDC’s guidelines as wildly misplaced, directly responsible … Continue reading The scammers fighting CDC’s opioid guidelines
Read More...To hear hospital lobbyists talk, you’d think Florida’s taxpayers and employers should subsidize hospital losses by paying exorbitant amounts for hospital care. Yesterday’s virtual meeting of the State’s Three Member Panel (TMP) featured several hospital lobbyists and officials waxing poetic … Continue reading Florida’s solution to hospitals’ financial mess is…
Read More...This isn’t going to be “over” for at least a year. Probably longer. Long enough that all of us must focus not on preparing for the end of the pandemic, but adapting to it and accepting that tomorrow will look … Continue reading The long haul
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