Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
This biweekly edition of health Wonk Review covers the recent news that health care cost inflation has moderated, digs into various aspects of ACA implementation, and provides insights on a couple other timely topics. Read on! Health care cost trends … Continue reading HWR on health care cost trends, reform implementation, and motivations
Read More...I’ll admit it, I’ve been slacking…It’s now five days since Coventry released their last-ever earnings report, and I’m only now posting on it. Mea culpa; too darn much work. Here are a few quick takeaways followed by my perspective on … Continue reading Coventry’s last earnings report
Read More...With long-time CWCI President Michael Nolan slated to retire in May, the Board named Alex Swedlow to replace Nolan, passing the torch to one of the leading figures in workers’ compensation. Alex’ research rigor, insight into nuances and intricacies of … Continue reading Smart move, CWCI
Read More...There’s yet more evidence that treatment patterns vary significantly across providers. Today’s evidence comes courtesy of two academic institutions and Medrisk, Inc. (consulting client) which reported significant differences in the type and duration of physical therapy provided to workers’ comp … Continue reading Variations in medical care – it happens in PT, too.
Read More...Elections have consequences. I don’t often quote Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove, but it certainly seems apropos now, three days after an historic election. There are a plethora of interesting story lines surrounding the election and the hows, whys, and whos … Continue reading Elections have consequences – Health Wonk Review’s post-election edition
Read More...It’s not the latest Odyssey/MSC/OneCall deal… Nor is it the increasing profitability (if one can call what’s really just the absence of continuing losses “increasing profitability”) of the comp industry. Sure there’s going to be talk about Sandy and her … Continue reading What people in Vegas will REALLY be talking about…
Read More...The blogosphere’s view of the Supreme Court decision is nuanced, insightful, and often surprising. Following up on our late Thursday night report on initial reactions to the decision, this is a quick tour of “the best of” posts over the … Continue reading SCOTUS on health reform – the bloggers respond – Part Two
Read More...Health Wonk Review is hosting a special edition today compiling the views of the health bloggers on the Supreme Court’s decision on PPACA. By now all know the Court upheld the Affordable Care Act by the narrowest of margins, with … Continue reading SCOTUS on health reform – the bloggers respond
Read More...Actually, it was. Faithful readers will note the delay in this biweek’s publication of HWR, a delay that was not an oversight but intentional; like many of you I’ve been waiting breathlessly for news of the Supreme Court’s pending decision … Continue reading Health Wonk Review isn’t waiting for the Supremes…
Read More...Trying something new in this fortnight’s edition of Health Wonk Review – instead of grouping contributions by topic, we’ll take them as they come – just like we encounter them on the web – and at the end, I’ll try … Continue reading Streaming Health Wonk Review
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