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Failure to Expand Medicaid Could Lead to Cost-Shift to Work Comp

Joe Paduda wrote this morning on his blog about the failure to expand Medicaid in several states, and its impact on workers’ comp.

This is not the first time Joe has written about the reluctance of politicians in states like my current state of Florida, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin and others.

As Joe rightly has pointed out in each of his articles, the government is paying for all of the additional…

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Hospital Closures Due to Failure to Expand Medicaid

As a follow-up to my last post, Nothing is Impossible, a small item in Joe Paduda’s Managed Care Matters blog post this morning caught my eye.

It is important to not what Joe is saying, because those individuals I mentioned in my previous post who mock my idea, do not realize this one fact that Joe so rightly points out and may be the way medical travel for work comp can be accomplished.

Joe…

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Exclusive Remedy in Workers’ Comp under Assault

As I reported last July in my article, Constitutionality of Workers’ Comp Challenged: What that could mean for Medical Travel, and three weeks later in my article, Update on Constitutionality of Work Comp in Florida, the concept of workers’ comp being the “exclusive remedy” for injured workers in Florida was ruled unconstitutional by a Miami-Dade county circuit judge.

Last week, Business…

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Weintraub: In September, my teenage son was rushed by ambulance from the Renaissance Fair in Tuxedo, N.Y., to Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern after choking on a piece of turkey. The care he received was appropriate; the bill was anything but.

The anatomy of a ripoff