Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
With the national work comp conference well underway, here’s what we saw/heard/learned yesterday. The session on improving medical networks led by Mark Walls included a rather blunt and direct Indictment of the work comp network business. I wasn’t there, but … Continue reading Vegas – day two
Read More...The annual gathering of the tribes has begun, with vendors and prospects flooding into Vegas. This year Nancy Grover reports attendance is up with only two cancelations due to Sandy. Having lived thru that storm I understand why folks want … Continue reading Work comp conference – day one
Read More...My post on Accident Fund’s ground-breaking analytical work generated a good bit of discussion, some public and much not, some appropriate and some a bit confused. To clarify, allow me to address a few issues. 1. As I said yesterday, … Continue reading Illinois’ workers comp costs – drivers and solutions
Read More...In response to several requests, click on the link for details on charges pending against Maryland Orthopedics physicians. When a doc knowingly overtreats, increasing the risk of adverse outcomes, potentially harming patients, and drives up costs with little apparent regard … Continue reading Update – The wages of sin in Maryland – a mild slap on the wrist
Read More...Normally, I am more comfortable calling attention to the issues rather than to myself… but I would be remiss in not thanking the IAIABC for their recent recognition of my efforts to address opioid overuse and physician dispensing in workers’ … Continue reading Mutual Admiration Society
Read More...WorkCompCentral’s Mike Whiteley reported this morning that Florida’s Prescription Drug Management Program (PDMP) is in danger of running out of money [sub req], just over a year after it got started, leaving doctors and dispensers with no way to monitor their … Continue reading Florida’s failing drug program
Read More...In Montana this week to deliver the keynote at the annual Governor’s Workers Comp Conference and get in a good bit of hiking in the mountains around Big Sky as well. Truth be told, I hadn’t been tracking goings-on in … Continue reading Montana’s making progress
Read More...While the annual Risk Insurance Management Society Conference is among the largest property and casualty conventions, if you’re looking for the latest information re workers’ comp you will have to go elsewhere. [disclosure – I’ve keynoted the two main WC conferences over … Continue reading The RIMS Conference and workers comp
Read More...Rising medical severity. The worst combined ratio in a decade. Inadequate reserves. Stubbornly slack employment demand. Premiums down a full 23 percent over the last six years. Things can’t get any worse, right? Right? Before we answer that, consider many … Continue reading Is work comp going to get any better?
Read More...Actually, it was. Faithful readers will note the delay in this biweek’s publication of HWR, a delay that was not an oversight but intentional; like many of you I’ve been waiting breathlessly for news of the Supreme Court’s pending decision … Continue reading Health Wonk Review isn’t waiting for the Supremes…
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