Paradigm Management Services, the nation’s leading provider of catastrophic and complex medical management services, today announced that Carol A. Novoa, CPDM, has joined the company as the Vice President of Account Services. In her role, Carol will lead the client service division in delivering exceptional client account management, developing and implementing growth strategies, and contributing [...]

Regional Health in Rapid City, S.D., and its employees will save more than $500,000 during the next three years on insurance premiums as a result of purchasing products through the employee benefit sponsored insurance arrangements with Premier Insurance Management Services Inc. (PIMS), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Premier healthcare alliance.
The healthcare system, which serves [...]

As a result of the development of a new long-range plan for 15-year-old Intercare Holdings Insurance Services, the firm’s senior management team has announced a series of strategic moves that have focused the Roseville-based company on its core competencies.
CEO George “Mac” McCleary detailed the plan, highlighting the divesture of an insurance brokerage operation and other [...]

BWise, a global leader for governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software solutions and Tauw Group, engineers and consultants specializing in the improvement and management of the natural environment, built-up environment and infrastructure, announced today their partnership to bring joint services to the market. By joining forces, Tauw Group and BWise can help organizations realize better [...]

Crawford Canada’s Bill Johnstone has been named senior vice president of Crawford & Company’s Global Technical Services (GTS) for the Americas, a newly created position designed to more effectively coordinate and grow this market-leading service, the Company announced
GTS is a major differentiator for Crawford worldwide in the high-end, complex loss adjusting market. With our strong [...]

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 [...]

Collaboration within the health care system and administrative efficiencies are fundamental elements to any number of today’s health care reform proposals in Washington, DC. New tools from Highmark to conduct real-time claims processing and real-time member liability estimation are driving collaboration and streamlining medical claims processing right in health care provider offices.
Real-time claims processing and [...]

The nation’s fourth-largest privately held insurance firm, Keystone Insurers Group (KIG), has purchased an equity interest in East Coast Risk Management, LLC (ECRM), specialists in risk management services. The transaction, recently completed, will provide KIG-franchised locations with an expanded suite of services.
ECRM is headquartered in North Huntington, Pa. The firm will offer – exclusively to [...]

Thunderhead, recognized innovators in document automation and multi-channel communications solutions, today announced that SafeAuto® Insurance Company has selected the Thunderhead NOW platform to streamline the creation and delivery of customer communications across the enterprise.
SafeAuto provides personal auto insurance on a consumer-direct basis exclusively through online and telephone distribution channels. The company specializes in providing low-cost, [...]

Global Strategic Advisors announced today that it has developed a joint venture relationship with HGA-BVI and its affiliates to further build on their relationship in providing alternative risk transfer and captive insurance educational services on a global basis.
Alternative Risk Transfer is the execution of techniques outside of traditional insurance and reinsurance to provide risk-bearing entities [...]