Industry Insights
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Paduda: What Is Transparency? | 02/05/2019 | |
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| Source: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Buyers are asking health care intermediaries for “transparency.” I’ll try to concisely describe what this transparency thing is. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: The Danger of Assumptions | 01/28/2019 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The older I get, the more I understand the value of experience. Convenient, huh? ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Predictions for Workers' Comp in 2019, Part 2 | 01/09/2019 | |
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| Source: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I'm continuing my predictions for workers’ comp in 2019. The first five were Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Predictions for Workers' Comp in 2019, Part 1 | 01/08/2019 | |
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| Source: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| If there were ever an impossible-to-predict year, 2019 is it. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Watch Out for Facility Costs | 12/24/2018 | |
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| Source: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Pharmacy costs are dropping, imaging is not an issue, physician expenses are growing modestly, and while PT payments are going up a bit, much of that is fee-schedule driven. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Work Comp Services: Specialize or Generalize? | 11/30/2018 | |
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| Source: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| WorkCompWire’s Leaders’ Speak column features a two...Read More | |||
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Paduda: And the Big Winner of the 2018 Midterms Is: Medicaid | 11/08/2018 | |
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| Source: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Three deep red states voted to expand Medicaid, and a fourth voted in a governor who will comply with her state’s 2017 referendum results and do the same. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Workers' Comp Claim Counts Are Down … Right? | 11/02/2018 | |
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| Source: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A recently released analysis of workers’ comp claim frequency tells us what we’ve known for years: The percentage of workers who get hurt on the job has been ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Who's Investing in Work Comp Services Now? | 10/26/2018 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Several years ago it was smaller private equity firms who bought companies for $75 million to $200 million, built them up and sold them off. Then it was the bigger PE firms that put together a couple of these and hoped to sell them for more than they paid, and were mostly successful....Read More | |||
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Paduda: Chronic Opioids Can Be Solved | 10/12/2018 | |
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| Source: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| That’s the key lesson from Oct. 3's session on dealing with legacy opioid claims at International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions' 104th convention in Virginia. ...Read More | |||
