Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
WCRI’s latest report on physician dispensing confirms what we weary soldiers have known for years; the physician dispensing industry is way better at figuring out how to screw employers and taxpayers than workers’ comp payers and regulators are at stopping … Continue reading Why be a crook when you can be a dispensing doc?
Read More...That is the reason there’s been so much investor interest in workers’ comp – we are the epitome of the “yellow sticky” business… Workarounds abound, driven by individual adjuster’s requests, insurer system limitations, ever-changing state requirements, unrealistic-but-nonetheless-mandatory employer demands, and system … Continue reading Making work comp services more “efficient”
Read More...Finally. Investigative journalists are catching on to the widespread, rampant abuse of work comp by unscrupulous “doctors” and scam artists who’ve figured out it’s easy to make bank by cheating employers and taxpayers out of their workers’ comp dollars; and … Continue reading Highlighting the lowlifes – Real investigative journalism looks into workers comp
Read More...Elections have consequences, none more so than this one. With the GOP headed for potentially historic losses in the Senate and House – and another four years of a Democratic-controlled White House and administration, policy makers are working on what … Continue reading Obamacare – Round Two
Read More...At the WCRI Conference, PartnerSource’s Bill Minick began his talk stating that one shouldn’t just read the language of ERISA opt-out plans but rather understand what actually happens in the real world. I’m a bit skeptical of this, as whenever something goes … Continue reading Bill Minick – In defense of Opt Out
Read More...At the 2016 WCRI Conference, several hours were devoted to opt out – what’s happening in TX and OK, variations among and between proposals to expand opt out to other states, employer views and challenges and problems and opportunities and… … Continue reading Opt Out and work comp – the definitive report
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?
Read More...The last session at WCRI focused on my least favorite topics – doc dispensed drugs and opioids. note findings are preliminary and subject to change. From Dongchun Wang, doc dispensing. My takeaways. Price-focused controls don’t work to control physician dispensing. … Continue reading Physician dispensing, opiods and efforts to control same
Read More...WCRI has become a MUST DO conference for all involved in the industry; there are over 400 attending this year. Here’s a quick morning-after takeaway list. Differing views on the afternoon devoted to Opt-Out; some felt it was too much … Continue reading Takeaways from WCRI Day One
Read More...Before we jump into the above-cited topic, courtesy of the ever-enlightening Alex Swedlow, are Myths and Facts about work comp States with larger work comp agencies do NOT have higher work comp costs. Nor is there a correlation due to red- … Continue reading More than one truth – California workers’ comp
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