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Managed Care Matters

WEBInsight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda. Three things. First, healthcare is a very complicated and complex business, nothing like Walmart’s core business Walmart’s …

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Walmart is shutting down its healthcare centers…which …

WEBWalmart’s failure comes after Haven Healthcare, the joint venture of giants Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan went belly-up early in 2021. Haven CEO …

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The giant of healthcare

WEBThe giant of healthcare. UnitedHealth Group projects its 2022 revenues will be around $320 billion – that’s equivalent to 7% of total US healthcare spend. (around …

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Employee paid health insurance on a large scale

WEBSix large national employers have begun to offer employee-paid, low cost low coverage health insurance plans to part-time workers. The plans are provided by United …

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Haven Healthcare's next step

WEBIs partnering with two big insurance companies to offer creative plans to two of its owners’ employees.. 30,000 JPMorgan workers in Ohio and Arizona covered by …

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A promising new tool for physical therapy

WEBA promising new tool for physical therapy. I’m approached by lots of companies looking for advice on how to get their products/services into the workers’ …

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How we measure “value” in healthcare is all wrong.

WEBFunctionality is the only “value” metric that matters, yet pretty much no one in healthcare and no healthcare organization – except in workers’ comp – talks about …

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Who's healthier and why.

WEBTwo quick facts about healthcare in the US. One – we white people are a lot healthier than people of color and native Americans. This is particularly true for African …

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U.S. healthcare vs the world in one chart

WEBThe US healthcare system is delivering crappy results for way too much of our money. Given what we pay, we should have the fewest infant deaths, lowest surgical …

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Hospital goings on

WEBMeanwhile, giant for-profit H CA reported a big jump in earnings. From Reuters: HCA posted quarterly revenue of $17.34 billion, beating estimates of $16.78 …

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MedRisk acquires Medata

WEBMedRisk acquires Medata to further improve the claims experience for customers, patients, and providers. King of Prussia, Pa. (January 9, 2024) — MedRisk, …

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Private health insurance has failed.

WEBIf you had “government” health insurance for the last decade, your costs would be 20 – 25% lower today. That’s because private insurers have not controlled …

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Health Wonk Review

WEBIf ever there was a time to be writing about health reform, this is it. It’s an even better time to be reading about health reform. Is health reform dead, or is it just …

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COVID, Science, and "Natural" Immunity

WEBThere’s a good deal of confusion out there about “natural” immunity and COVID. Here are the facts. first, there’s no such thing as “artificial” immunity. ALL …

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COVID claims aren’t expensive, and treatment isn’t being delayed

WEBThose are my two top takeaways from CWCI’s excellent analysis of 2020. I had the opportunity to tune into the virtual annual meeting, and Alex Swedlow was kind …

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The Biden Healthcare plan explained

WEBMedicare – and Medicare recipients – are paying far too much for drugs. Briefly, the Biden Plan would: Cap individual health insurance premiums at 8.5% of …

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Enough obsessing…here’s what the election means for healthcare.

WEBLike many, I’ve been spending far too much time obsessing over election results. It’s a waste of time and energy…and completely useless; rather than dive into …

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Exchange health insurance premiums up 10%…

WEBok, that’s the headline, but it’s so generalized that it’s all but useless. In fact, premium increases vary quite a bit around the country and even within markets. Our …

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So, you want to invest in workers comp managed care

WEBThe private equity and venture capital folks have been prowling around the WC managed care world for a couple of years now, looking for opportunities to invest …

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Health Strategy Associates has been purchased.

WEBHealth Strategy Associates has been purchased. When you get an offer you can’t refuse…you don’t. A couple months ago I was approached by an investment firm …

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Capitalism will never solve our healthcare problem

WEBSome ill-informed but perhaps well-intentioned people opine that all we need to do to solve the healthcare cost problem is unleash the free market. Their thinking …

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Americans can't afford healthcare

WEBHaving a “single payer” system seems that it could at least bring much more uniformity to simplify the entire healthcare process. If everyone were operating under the …

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