Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
Bill Sota posted a brief piece about the Veterans Administration’s adoption and use of Electronic Health Records, citing: “Good news on the cost savings performance of Vista which is the VA’s electronic medical record system:” Bill is referring to the … Continue reading Two points – EHR and the government’s incompetence
Read More...Recently NCCI released a white paper entitled “Medicare and Workers Compensation Medical Cost Containment”. The report goes well beyond a discussion of the relationship between Medicare’s physician and hospital reimbursement policies’ impact on workers comp; not that it doesn’t address … Continue reading Medicare and Workers’ Comp – NCCI’s view
Read More...President Obama’s recent visit to Baltimore to speak with (as he said, “not to, but with”) the House Republican Conference was one of the best things to happen in politics in recent memory. Not that there’s a long list. During … Continue reading Obama and the Republicans on health care – the Baltimore dialogue
Read More...Health reform won’t happen this year; ignore all the brave happy talk – there will be no bill that reforms the insurance markets, lowers costs, and/or expands coverage. You can’t have insurance market reform – ending medical underwriting and risk … Continue reading Why health reform is dead
Read More...Just in time for Christmas, the good folks at NCCI have released their study of Narcotics in Workers Compensation, providing readers with just what they want – more evidence that the workers comp industry has a long way to go … Continue reading Drug use in workers comp – the narcotics problem
Read More...Healthplan stock prices climbed yesterday as a Goldman Sachs analyst upgraded his view on the entire sector, concluding “Key to our view is that an end to health reform uncertainty (in a better-than-worst-case outcome) will be a positive catalyst, bringing … Continue reading The long and the short of health reform’s impact on stock prices
Read More...In the work comp managed care/claims world, some vendors’ revenue maximization efforts are getting ever more clever. I know, I know, I’ve posted on this several/numerous/multiple times before, but to my never-ending amazement, these practices continue. So here are the … Continue reading How to know if you’re being ripped off
Read More...The chances of some variety of health insurance reform passing are looking more likely and big pharma is getting ready. By raising branded drug prices nine percent (so far) this year., and this at a time when the Consumer Price … Continue reading Your drug costs are going up…
Read More...For the update, see UPDATE below. Also, if you would like a copy of Todd’s marketing presentation, email me at infoAThealthstrategyassocDOTcom. The presentation is not copyrighted, marked confidential or proprietary, or otherwise protected from distribution. Original post The world of … Continue reading UPDATE – Ethics in workers comp managed care
Read More...Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee held an initial hearing aimed at removing some of the health insurance industry’s anti-trust exemptions. The hearing, entitled “Prohibiting Price Fixing and Other Anticompetitive Conduct in the Health Insurance Industry”, may be a reaction … Continue reading Anti-trust and the Health Insurance Industry – what’s this all about?
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