New offering provides five percent discount on workers’ compensation premiums, simplifies group health and workers’ compensation insurance management DENVER and RENO, Nev., Nov. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Anthem) and EMPLOYERS®, America’s small business insurance specialist®, have joined forces to provide Colorado’s small businesses a simplified approach to purchasing Anthem… [Read more]
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PMSI Announces An Enhanced Brand To Reflect Its Successful Delivery Of Cost Containment Solutions
Tampa, Fla. (Nov. 10, 2010)–WorkCompWire–– PMSI, one of the nation’s largest providers of specialty workers’ compensation products and services, today announced that it has enhanced its brand and visual identity. The brand features a new tagline – “Proven Solutions for Cost Containment,” which reflects PMSI’s focus on clinically based programs which ensure a high quality… [Read more]
State Fund Announces January Rate Filing and Revised Broker of Record Policy
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — State Fund announced today a 5.2 percent overall rate increase for 2011 and a revised broker of record policy. The rate filing also includes changes that will better serve employers in California’s workers’ compensation insurance market. We recognize these are difficult economic times for California business owners. This… [Read more]
Jopari Has Begun Testing the ‘5010’ Standard With Its Provider and Payer Clients for Use in P&C Industry
Participation with ASC X12 005010 Testing Workgroup of National Standards Organization WEDI will Align Transaction Protocols for Stakeholders CONCORD, Calif., Nov. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Jopari Solutions, a principal supplier of integrated medical transaction EDI services to the Property and Casualty Industry, has already begun early adoption testing of the new “5010” electronic billing… [Read more]
Burbank Brothers Arraigned on Federal Charges of Defrauding Federal Workers’ Compensation Program
California Men Charged With Insurance Fraud Santa Ana, California 11/08/2010–TransWorldNews–Two brothers pleaded not guilty today to federal charges that allege they submitted bills that fraudulently sought hundreds of thousands of dollars from a government workers’ compensation program for supposedly transporting injured Postal Service employees to medical appointments that never took place. Roman “Mike” Aghajanyan, 27,… [Read more]
CorVel Announces Revenues and Earnings
IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — CorVel Corporation (Nasdaq: CRVL) reported earnings per share of $0.62 for the quarter ended September 30, 2010, a 24% increase compared to $0.50 in the same quarter of the prior fiscal year. Earnings per share for the six months ended September 30, 2010 were $1.26, a 27% increase… [Read more]
Bridgeforth Authors International Textbook On Radiology Trauma
Addison, TX., November 1, 2010-WorkCompwire–When J.P. Lippincott, America’s oldest medical publisher, wanted to train physicians worldwide about the practice of medicine, they selected five subjects for their primary care medical series. Each subject was published as a hardcover textbook with a global marketing campaign. The radiology trauma textbook project was awarded to George Bridgeforth MD,… [Read more]
CWCI Study Finds Most Drugs Prescribed in California Work Comp Are in the Medi-Cal Fee Schedule
San Diego, CA–WorkCompWire–California workers’ compensation prescription drug costs may be on the rise again, but not because of an increase in the use of drugs outside of the Medi-Cal fee schedule according to new research by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute. Under the workers’ compensation pharmacy fee schedule adopted in 2004, maximum reasonable fees for… [Read more]
Sedgwick CMS to Acquire Investigative Specialist Factual Photo
MEMPHIS, Tenn. and NAPERVILLE, Ill., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ — Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc. (Sedgwick CMS) and Factual Photo, Inc. (Factual Photo) announce an agreement whereby a subsidiary of Sedgwick CMS will acquire the operations of Factual Photo. Closing is scheduled for November 1, 2010. Sedgwick CMS is the largest independent North American provider of… [Read more]
Concentra Acquires Olathe Occupational Medicine Clinic
Addison, TX., October 22,2010–WorkCompwire–Effective October 1, Concentra, a national provider of occupational health services, has expanded its customer base and reach with the asset purchase of Olathe Occupational Medicine Clinic in Olathe, Kansas. The acquisition of this center expands Concentra’s geographic footprint to seven centers in the greater Kansas City area. The former Olathe Occupational… [Read more]