Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
What’s the deal with long-term COVID? Why are facility costs increasing and where? How will labor market disruptions affect work comp? These and other questions will be addressed in Boston March 16 and 17 at WCRI’s Issues and Research Conference. … Continue reading COVID, facility cost drivers, employment – don’t miss WCRI’s annual confab
Read More...And that has big implications for private insurance and workers’ comp. An insightful piece by Milbank Fund President Chris Koller details the carnage (Chris and I serve on Commonwealth Care Alliance’s Board of Directors). Total healthcare spending in March was … Continue reading Hospitals and medical practices are losing billions.
Read More...You can’t afford other stuff because healthcare is so expensive. Would Single Payer/Medicare for All fix that? I’m revisiting the topic so we can better understand the many variations of SP/MFA, how they are different, how those variations might work, … Continue reading Could Medicare for All solve your healthcare cost problem?
Read More...For a relatively small industry, there sure are a ton of conferences. From WCRI to NCCI to AASCIF to CSIA to CLM to PRIMA to NWCDC to SIIA to WCI360 to RIMS to AFERM to the ExecuSummit and dozens of … Continue reading Conference overload
Read More...Here’s what else was happening last week while we were tracking One Call’s financial troubles… Who’s for Medicare For All? Who wants to “abolish private health insurance in favor of a public run plan?” That was the question asked of … Continue reading Key takeaways from what happened last week
Read More...This week we are unpacking Single Payer/Medicare for All to better understand the many variations of SP/MFA and now they are different, how those variations might work, and whether some version is a) politically viable and b) would solve the … Continue reading Could Medicare for All Solve the healthcare cost problem?
Read More...Healthcare is changing really quickly and quite dramatically. Stuff we never would have thought of is happening every day. A huge PBM is buying one of the largest health insurers in the world. Provider consolidation is rapidly accelerating. Many insurers are … Continue reading We haven’t seen anything yet.
Read More...The work comp meme is our industry is always 20 years behind the rest of the world. Of late, that’s been overly optimistic, as insurers actually turn the clock back even further as they adopt tried-and-failed methods of buying medical … Continue reading Some work comp payers are committing suicide
Read More...Headed out on a much-needed vacation; MCM will be on hiatus till the middle of next week. Here’s a few items of note that came across the virtual wire over the last few days. Mylan’s EpiPen Disaster. In the story-that-will-not-die, … Continue reading Pre-vacation catch-up
Read More...Recent personnel/management changes by two big work comp payers are causing some to wonder who’s in control of medical management buying decisions – and whether senior management fully grasps the implications of those changes. While two examples do not a trend … Continue reading Who needs experts anyways?
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