Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
I’ve written before about the problems caused by buyers – poor wording of questions, lack of decisiveness, failure to provide feedback, failure to make ANY decision, arrogance and churlish behavior. But vendors aren’t without blame. I’ve reviewed a lot of … Continue reading RFPs and the mistakes vendors make
Read More...Frank Schmid had the honor of conducting the final report at the 2011 NCCI Annual Issues Symposium, and he was well worth the wait. Dr Schmid discussed physician fee schedules, price levels, and ‘price departure’. Schmid reported not results, but … Continue reading NCCI – saving the best for last – fee schedules and medical pricing
Read More...Hard to believe, but it’s been six-and-a-half years that I’ve been writing, and some of you have been reading, Managed Care Matters. In that time, I’ve done over two thousand posts, accumulated 2539 subscribers, 3920 (legitimate) comments, and now average … Continue reading What to do about Managed Care Matters?
Read More...Rep Paul Ryan’s (R WI) Plan to address the deficit relies heavily on private health insurers to solve the seemingly-intractable health care cost inflation problem. Today we’ll finish the discussion of his solution for Medicare. Ryan’s Medicare plan does include … Continue reading The Ryan deficit plan, part two – shifting cost to Medicare recipients
Read More...Rep Paul Ryan (R WI) has come up with an economic/philosophical/governance plan that puts our problems squarely on the table – unsustainable government spending, driven in large part by health care costs. While that’s not exactly new news, it is … Continue reading Paul Ryan’s health care ‘fix’
Read More...This am’s WorkCompCentral reported that Florida Gov. Rick Scott spoke out in favor of a ban on physician dispensing of Scheduled drugs – those medications regulated/tracked by the DEA. It’s indeed encouraging that Scott has finally decided to do something … Continue reading Rick Scott and drugs – an ‘inconsistent’ position
Read More...This morning’s WorkCompCentral had a piece by Greg Jones noting complaints by medical specialty groups about the study on physician prescribing of opioids recently released by CWCI. I received a copy of the letter as well, and frankly was surprised … Continue reading Opioids in workers comp – attacking the messenger
Read More...Today’s post concludes the four-part discussion of the ‘Fedealization of Workers’ Comp’. And we’ll go out not with a bang, but rather a whimper… There have been a couple of relatively recent developments that appear to have excited some concern … Continue reading Federalization of workers comp – part 4
Read More...This afternoon I was a lunch time speaker at the IAIABC Conference in St Louis, where I was asked to opine on the chances of a major Federal incursion into the (mostly) state regulated world of work comp. I’ve noted … Continue reading The Federalization of Workers Comp – seriously?
Read More...I received this comment from a reader in response to my post about ExamWorks and their recent financials. It is quite thorough and well worth consideration on its own merits. Thanks Joe for a very interesting post. The market is … Continue reading ExamWorks – another opinion
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