Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
NCCI’s just-published assessment of work comp trends has a wealth of information, much of it well worth contemplation by anyone in the industry. Here are a few takeaways that jumped out at me. Overall the current state of the market … Continue reading Workers’ comp – the near-term outlook
Read More...This is the eleventh (!) year I’ve been involved in surveying workers’ comp payers to get their take on pharmacy management. Now that Yvonne Guibert (thank you Yvonne) has finished collecting the data, I’m working on the report. It’s going … Continue reading Survey of Drug management in work comp – quick take
Read More...The dog days of August are upon us, and I’m going to be on vacation for most of next week, so there won’t be much activity at the Intergalactic HQ of Health Strategy Associates – or here for that matter. … Continue reading Friday catch-up
Read More...Jack’s been getting ever deeper into the world of the adjuster of late – here’s his latest post. Over the past couple weeks Joe and I developed and sent out an Adjuster Survey to get more insight into adjusters’ (and … Continue reading Adjusters are happier than we thought…
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...Carol Telles spoke briefly on what other states can learn from Texas’ recent reforms – designed to address medical utilization by introducing medical management tools, and reducing utilization. These tools actually added some cost, so the cost:benefit of the reforms … Continue reading WCRI – the effect of WC reform in Texas
Read More...Amongst all the noise about the exchanges and enrollment, it is all-but-impossible to separate the BS from the RS (real scoop). So, here are a few factoids. Overall, enrollment for 2014 continues to lag behind initial projections,which the CBO estimated at 7 … Continue reading So what’s really happening with Obamacare?
Read More...For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. Thank you, HL Mencken, for describing the problem inherent in picking a workers’ comp PBM based on how much they charge for drugs. It is … Continue reading The price of the pill is so last century
Read More...The California Applicant Attorney’s Association says there’s a BIG problem with UR in California, and a recent analysis by CWCI is flawed and inaccurate. I don’t see it. Greg Jones’ piece in yesterday’s edition of WorkCompCentral digs deep into the … Continue reading UR in California’s a BIG problem…or not
Read More...Here in no particular order are items of interest that have come up this week. Heath care spending growth in 2012 was a low 3.7 percent – the fourth consecutive year it has been under 4 percent. Moreover, health spending … Continue reading Friday fast facts and catch-up
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