A survey by the Urban Institute found that 1.9 million seniors found themselves having to choose between buying food and buying medicine. The survey was conducted in 1993—a time when the economy was booming! Due to the current economic woes, it is more difficult than ever for seniors to make it on their own.
“More and [...]
Healthplace America is pleased to introduce Surgery Benefit Management to the healthcare industry. Healthplace America’s flagship product, the Healthplace Benefit(TM), is the first and only comprehensive Surgery Benefit Management solution that delivers cost savings to employer health plans while enhancing employee benefits with quality and savings for surgery.
Surgery accounts for $700 billion of today’s $2.3 [...]
Duck Creek Technologies, Inc. a leading provider of software and service solutions for the insurance industry, today announced that United America Indemnity Group, Inc. (”United America”) has implemented Duck Creek’s Policy Administration solution for a number of its Commercial ISO lines products. The PA-based carrier went live within six months with a custom Vacant Property [...]
CS STARS LLC, the industry’s leading provider of risk management technology, announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with Gould & Lamb, a nationally acclaimed provider of Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) compliance services and Mandatory Insurer Reporting (MIR) compliance.
Through its strategic alliance with Gould & Lamb, CS STARS now offers an end-to-end solution for [...]
Synovis Life Technologies, Inc. has entered into a definitive purchase agreement through a wholly owned subsidiary to acquire substantially all the assets of Pegasus Biologics, Inc., a privately held medical device company based in Irvine, Calif., focused on the development of advanced biological solutions for soft tissue repair. The purchase price is $12.1 million in [...]
LGPI, the pension institution for local governments in Finland, has signed an agreement with Ortec Finance to license its Asset Liability solution for pension plans Ortec Finance PALM. The ALM solution enables LGPI to formulate ALM strategies based on Ortec Finance state of the art scenario generation, asset and liability methodologies. The selection of was [...]
Independence Holding Company reported declaration of a semi-annual cash dividend of $0.025 per share of common stock, payable to stockholders of record on July 6, 2009, with a payment date of July 20, 2009.
IHC is a holding company principally engaged in the life and health insurance business and the acquisition of blocks of policies [...]
Medversant Technologies LLC, the company that changed the paradigm in provider credentialing with AutoVerifi™ (U.S. Patent 7,529,682), announces the addition of contract management to its on-demand Integrated Provider Management Platform (IPM). Medversant’s IPM with AutoVerifi dramatically improves the way healthcare organizations manage their provider related business processes.
“We tackled the hardest problem first and enabled continuous [...]
ACM Capital Partners, a national investment and advisory firm specializing in assisting middle-market companies in transition or distress, and Crestmark Bank, a nationally recognized provider of working capital solutions to small- and mid-sized businesses, today announced they have partnered to deliver a multi-million dollar asset-based loan for a struggling medical device company headquartered in California.
The [...]
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* Oracle Insurance today introduced Oracle® Revenue Management and Billing for Insurance, providing insurers the robust billing capabilities necessary to deliver streamlined, convenient billing, payment and collections processes, and improve service to customers and distribution channels.
* Oracle’s new solution [...]
