Industry Insights
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Paduda: Medical Inflation in Work Comp | 09/12/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Medical inflation in workers' compensation isn’t a problem. In most states. Today. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Implications of Medicare Drug Price Negotiations | 09/01/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Medicare will negotiate drug prices. Big Pharma is really upset. AARP is really happy. What’s the REAL story? ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Long COVID Is Real. 'Social Inflation' Is Not. | 08/21/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| The Workers Compensation Research Institute report on long COVID’s impact on work comp examined claims with an average of 18 months post-infe...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Heat and Job Growth | 08/16/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Two mostly-ignored things will have way more impact on workers’ comp than any other 10 factors. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Physician Dispensing in Work Comp Roars Back | 08/10/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Why? Mostly because insurers and employers have been asleep at the switch. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Survey of Workers' Comp Bill Review, Fourth Edition | 08/04/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Our fourth survey of workers’ comp bill review is nearing completion. One of the good things about doing this every few years is that we can identify trends and the industry’s evolution. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Research on Wearable Tech: It's the Data, Too | 07/26/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Two recently published peer-reviewed studies give more insight into the utility and effectiveness of wearables/digital health. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: 2023 Predictions for Workers' Comp, Part 1 | 07/24/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Time to check in and see how well/poorly my predictions for 2023 are panning out. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: The Cost of Heat | 07/19/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| While ignoramuses continue to deny we humans are changing the planet’s climate, folks with profit and loss responsibilities are calculating the cost of heat and heat-related injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Work Comp and Mass Shootings | 07/17/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Kudos to Texas’ Department of Workers’ Compensation for highlighting workplace mass shootings in a just-concluded annual conference. The presentation is here. ...Read More | |||
