Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
What with the HealthWonkReview Tenth Anniversary celebration at HWR HQ last week and finishing up a client project, I neglected my posting duties. Here’s what I shoulda been writing about. Work comp Working with Harbor Health, the State Fund of … Continue reading Monday catch up
Read More...Well, that didn’t take very long… Hard as it is to believe, Health Wonk Review has been around for a decade. Yup, since way back in the DSL days, before the birth of the iPhone, before the Great Recession, before health … Continue reading Health Wonk Review – The Tenth Anniversary Edition!
Read More...Made it home from warm and sunny Baton Rouge yesterday just in time to escape the travel disaster unfolding across the east coast. Hope you and yours are warm and snug and home. The big news-that-wasn’t was the completion of … Continue reading Friday catch up
Read More...Hosted by Workers’ Compensation Insider, and stuffed full of the latest and greatest on challenges to the ACA, new news on provider reimbursement, and Roy Poses’ ongoing effort to expose the sleazy side of health care and medical research. A … Continue reading It’s a happy holiday Health Wonk Review
Read More...CompPharma’s annual meeting was held last week; CompPharma is an association of workers’ comp PBMs of which I am president. This year the focus was on connecting payers’ Medical Directors, PBMs, and regulators in an effort to broaden all parties’ … Continue reading Monday catch-up
Read More...Brad Wright has penned a wonderful edition of Health Wonk Review, replete with the latest insights into health policy, workers’ comp, ACA implementation, and nefarious efforts by device manufacturers. Pleasing to the eye and brain, Brad’s effort is just terrific!
Read More...It’s the busy time – budgets, 2016 planning, getting those revenues in before year end. Tough to keep track of important stuff – no worries that’s what we at the Intergalactic Headquarters of Health Strategy Associates are here for! First, … Continue reading Catching up…
Read More...Harvest time is here, and we have a cornucopia of cogitation from contributors for your consideration. (sorry, it’s late…) The lede This may be mis-named, as Roy Poses MD’s take on the latest in the ongoing revolving door debacle presents a decidedly unappetizing look … Continue reading Health Wonk Review’s overflowing cornucopia!
Read More...that the predictions of employment declines due to ACA have turned out to be wrong. Right up front, let’s agree that it is pretty much impossible to completely separate the impact of one factor from all the others. Employment is … Continue reading Affordable Care and jobs: the data shows…
Read More...And you get to start the weekend early (we hope). While you were focused on other stuff – like work – here’s what else was going on in our little world. Fraud – two very different views. This morning’s WorkCompWire … Continue reading Friday’s here!
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