Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
Hello all! Well, (or rather, HELL!) it’s snowing in upstate New York…hopefully it’s a bit brighter where you are. Lots happened this week, so here we go. First, this really needs a series of posts, but it’s so important that better … Continue reading Friday catch-up from the (still) frozen northland…
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...Another deal goes down, more clarity around IMRs, more data on the impact of the Affordable Care Act – it’s been busy. First up, Select Medical’s purchase of Concentra. In what looks to have been a pre-emptive move, Select Medical announced … Continue reading Friday catch up
Read More...After several attempts to get the ProPublica and NPR reporters working the work comp beat to see both sides of a very complex “system”, better understand the drivers and dynamics, and correct their errors publicly, I’m giving up. Clearly, they don’t want to hear … Continue reading ProPublica’s slanted “reporting” is a public disservice
Read More...David Deitz, MD PhD was last up at CWCI, his task to bring it all together by asking an apparently simple and straightforward question: What can California learn from Washington? Or put another way, “Can California’s workers comp system be … Continue reading Can California’s comp system be fixed?
Read More...The annual caterwauling about Medicare physician reimbursement has begun. For those who just want the takeaway – there very likely won’t be any substantive, long-term “fix”, but rather another temporary – and very slight – increase in reimbursement. The latest … Continue reading Medicare doc fix – here we (don’t) go again…
Read More...In my post last week related to ProPublica’s Demolition article, I said: Informed sources indicated that reporters Michael Grabell of ProPublica and NPR’s Howard Berkes failed to contact WCRI before this week; a rather stunning oversight on the part of the reporters. I was wrong, and … Continue reading I was wrong.
Read More...WCRI’s Evelina Radeva focused on employee wage replacement, a particularly timely topic given NPR and ProPublica’s ongoing series on the Demolition of Workers’ Comp. Suffice it to say that PP’s reporters would have greatly benefited from Ms Radeva’s presentation. Informed … Continue reading Workers’ wage replacement – the real story
Read More...Dr Rebecca Yang discussed the correlation of fee schedules and associated physician billing activity. Key takeaways There’s somewhat of a correlation between low office visit reimbursement rates and higher incidence of physician dispensing. evidence from CA indicates that when th … Continue reading Lower fee schedules, increase costs?
Read More...Three weeks ago a group of stakeholders in Maryland decided physician dispensing wasn’t that bad [scroll down in link]. These stakeholders agreed to not do anything legislatively to address doc dispensing for another two years because their own analysis had indicated physician … Continue reading What Maryland SHOULD be studying
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