Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
Many payers’ bill review systems are still not electronically connected to medical management applications; bill review prices are lower than they were three years ago, and payers are increasingly interested in bill review applications’ rules engines. Those are three of … Continue reading Workers comp bill review – key findings from the latest Survey
Read More...HSA’s first annual Survey on Utilization Review in Workers Compensation. is underway and we’ve got a few preliminary findings to report. (click on the link to fill out the survey) We are surveying C level execs as well as desk-level … Continue reading Survey of UR in work comp – initial results…
Read More...Last year we completed the first annual Survey of Workers Comp Claims Systems; the report was published last fall, and Sandy Blunt’s interview with PropertyCasualty360 on the survey is now up and available. Here are three of the highlights from … Continue reading Workers comp claims systems survey – the podcast is up
Read More...I’m part way through the Seventh Annual Survey of Prescription Drug Management in Workers Comp, and have a couple of initial impressions worth sharing. First, and no surprise, is the increased concern about the growth of narcotic opioid usage in … Continue reading Drug costs in workers comp – initial survey results
Read More...If you want to get a detailed copy of HSA’s first Annual Survey of Worker Comp Claims IT Systems, time is running out. Respondents will receive a detailed version of the Survey Report; non-respondents will recieve an executive summary version. … Continue reading Work comp claims IT survey – your last chance
Read More...Health Strategy Associates’ First Annual Survey of Workers Comp Claims IT Systems is well underway, and we’re well on our way to reaching our goal. Respondents will be receiving a detailed copy of the Survey Report. We’re using SurveyMonkey to … Continue reading Survey of Workers Comp Claims IT Systems
Read More...Health Strategy Associates’ First Annual Survey of Work Comp Claims IT Systems is underway. The Survey seeks input from front-line folks and execs in claims and IT, and we’ll be comparing and contrasting responses to see if – or perhaps … Continue reading Workers comp claims systems survey is underway
Read More...The decrease in the workers comp drug cost inflation rate that persisted for five years appears to be over. According to HSA’s Sixth Annual Survey of Prescription Drug Management in Workers Compensation, the five-year ‘decrease in the rate of drug … Continue reading Sixth Annual Survey of Prescription Drug Management in Workers Compensation
Read More...My firm, Health Strategy Associates, has conducted a survey of prescription drug management each year for the last five. I’m well into the survey portion of the Sixth Annual Survey, and here are some preliminary findings. 1. Drug cost inflation … Continue reading The Sixth Annual Survey of Prescription Drug Management in Workers’ Comp – (very) preliminary results
Read More...The two overarching issues in work comp bill review are state reporting and the non-connect between utilization review/medical management and bill review. Bill Review Workers comp payers spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on medical management – pre-cert, … Continue reading Two key takeaways from HSA’s bill review survey
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