Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
at long last. Here’s a quick review of what happened this week. Health care costs Predictions for health care costs indicate a decrease in the rate of increase for those with private insurance, with PwC calling for a 6.5% increase … Continue reading Friday’s here…
Read More...Forgive the vulgarity, but it seems apt when considering two articles just published in the venerable journal Health Affairs. First, as physician practices consolidate, markets become more concentrated. A study indicates orthopedic fees paid by private insurers are measurably … Continue reading Health care cost drivers, or, Here’s where you’re getting screwed
Read More...What’s up? Implementing health reform Remember the big concern that employers would drop employee health insurance in response to ACA, and employees would lose coverage? Looks like that has not happened. The latest data indicates that the number of employees enrolled in employer … Continue reading Friday catch-up
Read More...It’s a big day for we commie socialists; hope your International Workers’ Day is filled with tributes to the proletariat… Workers’ comp While the world was at RIMS, I was otherwise engaged. Heard from several folks that the MedRisk event was … Continue reading May Day catch-up
Read More...Happy spring…or what passes for it here in upstate New York, which is one day of temps in the high fifties followed by…snow. Caught a few folks with my annual April Fools post; here’s a list of 10 that are waaaay … Continue reading Friday update
Read More...Earlier this week I ran into a couple of enterprising reporters responsible for a recent stream of articles about workers’ compensation; actually I sat next to them in an Atlanta airport bar. Evidently they’d been stuck there for some time as they were … Continue reading What you hear in airport bars…
Read More...In lovely Boston this week for the annual WCRI meeting, a day and a half stuffed with Research findings data and interpretation thereof. Warning- due to some laptop issues I’ll be posting from my iPhone, and you will undoubtedly see … Continue reading Live blogging from WCRI
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
Read More...Here’s the quick update on goings-on this week. First, Helios has an excellent synopsis of rules, regs, and laws affecting many aspects of workers’ comp medical management here. Get it, save it, and you’ll find it’s a great reference. Kudos … Continue reading It’s March! well, almost…
Read More...After eight days away, time to catch up on the goings on. Lots happened, beginning with the non-renewal of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, aka TRIA. Mark Walls’ solid summary of the non-event that is a big event is here; … Continue reading Monday morning catch-up
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