Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
In a deal just done, workers comp managed care firm MCMC will be/has acquired California-based CompPartners. The deal gives MCMC a greater footprint in the nation’s largest workers’ comp market, and adds significant strength in physician peer review along with … Continue reading MCMC has acquired CompPartners
Read More...It’s time to see how my predictions for 2012 turned out, and a final warning that the annual April 1 post is less than three months away… So here are they are…and here’s how it went… 1. Health reform will … Continue reading So, how’d those predictions for 2012 turn out?
Read More...Yesterday’s post on CorVel was cut short by the demands of real work; here’s the rest. Financially, CorVel has had a very mediocre year. Their most recent quarter saw revenues stay pretty much flat, while earnings dropped 10 cents a … Continue reading What’s new with CorVel, part 2
Read More...Looks like Congress is pressing forward on efforts to clean up the regulatory gaps implicated in the New England Compounding Center tragedy. Rita Ayers, CEO of Tower MSA Partners, has been tracking the US Senate’s work on the issue; the … Continue reading The latest on compounding pharmacies
Read More...Mike Whitely of WorkCompCentral reported this morning that the Florida Medical Association has decided that their doctors’ profits are far more important than patient safety. Sure, they’re hiding behind grand words such as “patient choice” and “return to work”, but … Continue reading The Florida Medical Association’s new tagline: Profits before Patients
Read More...Reflecting back on the Vegas comp conference (perhaps the best one in recent memory), what struck me most was the significant increase in companies focused on seemingly ever-smaller niches in the medical management space. Perhaps it’s partially driven by the … Continue reading Niches in work comp medical management
Read More...As of yesterday, employers won’t have to pay outrageously inflated prices for drugs dispensed to their injured employers. Until the legislature approved regulations capping drug prices for repackaged drugs, employers’ workers comp drug costs had been increasing at an astounding … Continue reading Employers in Illinois have much to be thankful for
Read More...Something struck me during the bloggers speak session on Thursday – at a time when medical costs are heading up, driven by over-utilization, opioids, crappy networks, and percentage-of-savings-based networks, there are few medical experts in positions of real authority in … Continue reading Work comp medical, OneCall, and the future of workers’ comp
Read More...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
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