David Deitz and Associates

Founded in 2014, David Deitz and Associates is able to provide a range of strategic, analytic and management consulting to healthcare industry clients, including payers, physician groups, employers, and vendors.

We are able to call on a breadth of experience in healthcare that few can match, providing perspectives and solutions for many different problems. Our focus is on finding lasting solutions that lead to excellent health and functional outcomes for patients, thereby reducing both disability and medical costs. We can call on many years of experience with large data sets – experience that includes not only analysis, but use of data to develop operational reporting, metrics to measure success, and predictive models.

Dr. Deitz’s recent speaking engagements can be found here.

What's New

The California Workers Compensation Institute (CWCI) has published an analysis of prescription drug allotments for workers compensation Medicare set-aside agreements (MSAs). Co-authored by CWCI President Alex Swedlow and David Deitz of DD&A, the study indicates that CMS has based allotments for prescription opioids on doses and durations of treatment that often exceed published recommendations for opioid use. The study is available through CWCI.

The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has released a preliminary agenda for its Annual Issues Symposium (AIS) for May 2018. The program will feature the usual comprehensive overview of the industry, including Chief Actuary Kathy Antonello’s State of the Line. Also on tap will be a Bob Hartwig talk on economics, perspectives from risk managers from 2 of Florida’s biggest companies, and an update from David Deitz of DD&A on the current clinical uses of marijuana and how these may affect workers compensation patients. You can see more here.

Automation will create significant disruptions to the current global workforce by 2030. That is the conclusion from a new analysis by McKinsey’s Global Institute. The authors suggest that 60% of current occupations have at least 30% of their work activities that could potentially be automated, leading to displacement of hundreds of millions of workers worldwide. There are many caveats attached to these conclusions, but the public policy implications make this well worth reading.