Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
Anyone else feeling a bit of deja vu? The blog world certainly is, with many of the entries for this edition of Health Wonk Review focusing on the ongoing battle over health reform, aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care … Continue reading Repeal, replace, renew, revise, revisit – what the bloggers say
Read More...Tomorrow morning Mitchell Medical will announce it has acquired the Ingenix medical bill bill review systems business from United HealthGroup. The deal, which has been tightly held, may also include the assets employed in developing state workers comp fee schedules, … Continue reading Mitchell to buy Ingenix’ bill review business
Read More...Now that health reform is the law of the land, the focus has turned to implementing the law itself. As anyone knows, the real work, and the real impact, is in the details, the definitions, the requirements and operating guidelines. … Continue reading Implementing Health Reform – Health Wonk Review reports
Read More...NCCI President Stephan Klingel led off this year’s NCCI Annual Issues Symposium with a brief intro, and his lead in wasn’t exactly encouraging, predicting a ‘precarious’ outlook for the workers comp market. The factors that led NCCI to characterize work … Continue reading NCCI’s state of the industry 2010 – the overview
Read More...Ok. I’m not exactly what one would call a ‘fan’ of the health reform bill – too much coverage, not near enough cost control. There are plenty of issues with the current bill, more than enough to make serious students/wonks … Continue reading Hilarious health reform mis-information
Read More...From comments made by management at Coventry’s presentation at Morgan Stanley investor day last week, the company’s efforts to refocus on core businesses appears to be working. Of he two key takeaways one was wildly obvious while the other much … Continue reading Coventry Healthcare – they’ve solved yesterday’s problem
Read More...Networks aren’t the only work comp managed care service experiencing change these days. The bill review business is also looking a bit tumultuous, with the landscape shifting in response to, as well as independent of, Coventry’s moves. I’ll be examining … Continue reading WC Bill Review – status update
Read More...Economist N Gregory Mankiw published a piece in the NYTimes OpEd section calling into question some common perceptions about health care cost, affordability, and the rate of uninsurance. Mr. Mankiw did make some excellent points; his interpretations on others were … Continue reading Mankiw’s tortured logic
Read More...Return with us once again to the enlightened pens (ok, keyboards) of the policy wonks as they pass on their pragmatic, practical, and perspicacious prose to you, dear reader, in this publication of HWR.
Read More...Health Wonk Review is up and sprinting. Despite a hint of chill in the air here in New England, the darn thing is growing like a weed. I attribute that to the hothouse conditions that exist in today’s health care … Continue reading Health Wonk Review – the Harvest Moon edition
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