Connolly Healthcare, a permanent Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), has signed a five-year license agreement with Milliman Care Guidelines.
Connolly will use the Care Guidelines content and software to review Medicare claims in 15 states — West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, [...]

With the Federal Reserve predicting unemployment to reach 8.8 percent in 2009, jobless workers may need the extra benefits from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. But unemployed workers should factor in the tax implications of these benefits to avoid owing at tax time.
“If you’re one of the millions of Americans who are unemployed, an [...]

In the time it takes to brew a morning cup of coffee, a thief could steal a person’s identity. That means months of frustration, hours on the phone talking to creditors and lawyers, and hundreds — if not thousands — of dollars to restore your good name. Erie Insurance’s Identity Recovery Coverage, available for a [...]

With the Sayre Fire racing across the Sylmar area, homeowners in hillside and brush areas are reminded of the importance of a family disaster plan.
Homeowners often have only minutes to evacuate, and in a panic may forget critical items such as financial documents, medications and other items.
Homeowners who are not immediately threatened by fire should [...]

In the time it takes to brew a morning cup of coffee, a thief could steal a person’s identity. That means months of frustration, hours on the phone talking to creditors and lawyers, and hundreds — if not thousands — of dollars to restore your good name. Erie Insurance’s Identity Recovery Coverage, available for a [...]

Allied Insurance and local independent agents are pleased to announce financial contributions to local nonprofit organizations to help communities recover from the devastating floods that affected Iowa and the Midwest this summer.
Allied Insurance will be hosting two luncheons to present 21 nonprofit organizations with more than $188,000. Members of the media are welcome to attend [...]

When Joseph Brady, Superintendent of Schools for the Minersville Area School District found out one of his schools had been severely vandalized over night, he was adamant that school must reopen as soon as possible. Vandals had smashed and destroyed windows, computers, monitors, light fixtures and opened fire extinguishers. When all was said and done, [...]

Denver-based NetQuote announced today that it has selected Fairfax, Va.-based Latisys, a leading provider of data center, managed hosting and managed services, for the colocation of NetQuote’s business-critical Web infrastructure. NetQuote, a leading online insurance marketplace, provides pertinent insurance-related content, services and tools to consumers of insurance services to more than 25 million users spanning [...]

The National Center for Regulatory Reform, developed by attorneys deeply involved in representing the victims of the federal and state governments’ failure to regulate the financial and insurance industries, today expressed its concerns that the new regulations proposed by the current administration will do more harm than good.
Under the plan, the government would have new [...]

In a time of financial turmoil, the insurance industry faces an unprecedented opportunity to begin selling on value and not on price, Joe Plumeri, Chairman and CEO of Willis Group Holdings the global insurance broker, told delegates at Insurance Day’s Summit Bermuda here. Delivering the keynote address at today’s event, Plumeri said that the [...]