Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
The headline of an article at WorkCompCentral this morning is “Liberty Mutual to Exit Workers’ Compensation.” That headline is misleading. UPDATE WCC revised the headline; it now reads “Liberty Mutual backing away from workers compensation” While there’s no question the … Continue reading Liberty Mutual is NOT exiting workers’ comp
Read More...The ongoing rollout of the Affordable Care Act is the primary subject of this edition of Health Wonk Review – but there’s much more from the best of the health policy blogosphere – all summarized here for your reading pleasure! … Continue reading The Everything-PPACA edition of Health Wonk Review
Read More...David Deitz, MD PhD was last up at CWCI, his task to bring it all together by asking an apparently simple and straightforward question: What can California learn from Washington? Or put another way, “Can California’s workers comp system be … Continue reading Can California’s comp system be fixed?
Read More...Monday, Aetna announced it will be increasing the company’s minimum wage to $16/hour. In the internal memorandum provided to managers, the company said “We will not be funding this program through job eliminations… According to a source, during a company-wide … Continue reading Aetna raises minimum wage, then cuts work comp staff
Read More...Leaving tomorrow for eight days away, so today’s a quick catch-up. First up, the news that there’s been a dramatic increase in investor interest in addiction rehab. The market for services will increase to $35 billion this year, up more than 50% over … Continue reading Pre-Vacation catch up
Read More...The just-released report of the Medicare Actuary finds that hospital costs have been increasing at a historically low rate – below 1 percent – for the last four years. And that’s not likely to change. Medicare is pushing facilities to … Continue reading Great news for taxpayers may be bad news for workers’ comp
Read More...It is a gorgeous day in upstate NY – not that every day in upstate isn’t fabulous. Hope your weather is equally spectacular. This week has been nuts…between deals, indictments, PPACA enrollment…gosh how’s a guy supposed to keep up! First … Continue reading Friday catch-up – non-competes, compounds, and clustermesses
Read More...Another week on the road, and looking forward to a whole week of NO TRAVEL…oh, the luxury of it! Enough whining – on to the news of import from the last few days. First up, a quick synopsis of the … Continue reading Friday catch-up – Obamacare rollout and WC Rx
Read More...The last session on Thursday focused on regulatory and legislative trends – primarily focused on state issues. There’s also a session on the impact of ACA on work comp; that’s something I’ve spent far too much time on – that … Continue reading NCCI – Work comp legislative and regulatory trends
Read More...Turns out one reason the small employer mandate has been delayed is the Feds are incorporating a national “single payer” work comp program that is not quite ready for prime time. The POWER (Protecting Our Workers and Ensuring Reemployment) program, which … Continue reading Obamacare exchanges to be used for work comp enrollment
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