Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
The pushback on opioids has accelerated dramatically; every day there’s at least one major announcement about states, the Feds, or other entities taking major steps to attack the overuse of opioids. We are starting to see some progress. Perhaps most … Continue reading The Anti-Opioid Movement is gaining speed and traction
Read More...Summer is supposed to be slow down time – this one is proving to be anything but. Worker’s comp There are several acquisitions likely to be announced over the next few weeks, one relatively small one as early as today. When … Continue reading Catching up…
Read More...And you get to start the weekend early (we hope). While you were focused on other stuff – like work – here’s what else was going on in our little world. Fraud – two very different views. This morning’s WorkCompWire … Continue reading Friday’s here!
Read More...Gotta love the start of summer; hope your weekend is going to be filled with fun and family. But before you go, here’s what’s been going on over the past couple of weeks. First, your morning outrage…here’s the latest from … Continue reading Friday catch-up
Read More...NCCI, with the assistance of payer medical directors (shout out to Employers’ Dwight Robertson MD and David Deitz MD among others) presented on 4 research topic areas late Thursday afternoon. After a long day of great talks (this NCCI has … Continue reading NCCI’s PM sessions – hard core research geeks only
Read More...21 states have not (yet) chosen to expand Medicaid; one can (and I have) argued that this is nonsensical at best, as the Feds are paying for ALL of the additional cost for another two plus years, and the vast … Continue reading Medicaid and Workers’ Comp
Read More...It’s a big day for we commie socialists; hope your International Workers’ Day is filled with tributes to the proletariat… Workers’ comp While the world was at RIMS, I was otherwise engaged. Heard from several folks that the MedRisk event was … Continue reading May Day catch-up
Read More...Florida’s legislature can’t decide if it does or doesn’t want federal money. That’s the policy question; it’s discussed in some detail below. A quicker explanation by way of metaphor was conveniently provided by a native Floridian; Austin Hatfield adopted a pet water … Continue reading Florida’s conundrum
Read More...The ongoing rollout of the Affordable Care Act is the primary subject of this edition of Health Wonk Review – but there’s much more from the best of the health policy blogosphere – all summarized here for your reading pleasure! … Continue reading The Everything-PPACA edition of Health Wonk Review
Read More...Happy spring…or what passes for it here in upstate New York, which is one day of temps in the high fifties followed by…snow. Caught a few folks with my annual April Fools post; here’s a list of 10 that are waaaay … Continue reading Friday update
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