Industry Insights
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Paduda: Whither Workers' Comp in 2017 — Part I | 12/29/2016 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| It’s time to polish up the Health Strategy Associates crystal ball and prognosticate on what the next year will bring for workers’ comp. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Trump and Workers' Comp | 11/21/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| There’s no question the Republican sweep will hugely affect workers’ comp. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: What's Really Happening in Workers' Comp | 11/07/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Injury rates are plummeting, insurance premium rates are flat or dropping, and medical costs are down as well. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Why Are Work Comp Medical Costs Decreasing? | 10/25/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| Medical costs were up a mere 3% in 2014, and actually dropped by a point in 2015 (in National Council on Compensation Insurance states). ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Takeaways From DOL's State Workers' Compensation Report | 10/07/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| After discussing Wednesday's meeting at the Department of Labor with several colleagues and reviewing notes, here are my key takeaways. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: What Medicare's Reimbursement Changes Mean for Work Comp | 09/28/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| It isn’t possible to exaggerate the implications of the changes to Medicare’s provider fee schedule. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Work Comp's Future Is Not What You Think it Is | 09/16/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| What drives workers’ comp is employment — more specifically, payroll, industry type and claim frequency. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Workers' Comp Hospital Costs — Implications for Payers | 09/08/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Workers' Compensation Research Institute's report on variations in-hospital outpatient costs is yet more evidence of the wide and seemingly nonsensical variations in work comp regu...Read More | |||
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Pfeifer: Permanent Total Disability Benefits | 09/06/2016 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In 1983, Robert Boyd, who is now in his early 90s, retired from the Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. Twenty-two years later, in 2005, he filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits for asbestosis in both lungs. The claim was allowed and he began collecting benefits. But the story ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Companies Need strategies, Execs Need Success | 08/30/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Those two often don’t match up very well. Example: Work comp insurance companies benefit when medical and indemnity costs are lower than expected. So, lower medical costs equal better “outcome” for the company. ...Read More | |||
