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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– Despite convincing clinical evidence on the health and economic benefits of home therapy, Medicare has proposed a policy that will severely restrict reimbursement for pneumatic compression devices for over one million lymphedema patients who could benefit from such treatment, according to…

I moved back to Kentucky for this job, and as part of that, I needed to register my car in Barren County. Most of the processes they're required to follow are decided by the powers that be in Frankfort and beyond. After securing a Kentucky driver's license, I made my first trip to the clerk's office.

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews journalists, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing by Primerica, Inc. was posted on November 4, 2015. The SEC file number is 0001157523-15-003701.. A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing is a formal…

New Angiology Study Results Reported from Boston University. By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– Research findings on Angiology are discussed in a new report. Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Boston University, “The most recent datasets of the nationwide inpatient sample was queried for patients…

Market Research Store releases a new market research report “Global Manual Wheelchair Market 2012 Forecast to Industry Size, Shares, Strategies, Trends, and Growth 2018” to add to its collection of research reports.Deerfield Beach, FL—- 11/19/2015– A new study on Manual Wheelchair Market Shares and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012-2018. The 2012 study has 365 pages, 110…

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of California, “In addition, respondents were asked a series of questions related to the Perioperative Surgical Home. A cross-sectional survey was sent through email to 6000 randomly chosen active members of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. To validate the primary…

A growing primary-care physician shortage combined with an increase in primary-care visits generated by the Affordable Care Act has some physicians here, such as Dr. Cody Ellefsen, looking at an alternative business model, called direct primary care. He is the practice's sole employee, operating out of exam rooms in the same building as the Neuropath NW Health&…

Reports Summarize Anesthesia Findings from Stanford University. According to news reporting originating from Stanford, California, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Markets for physician services are becoming increasingly concentrated, with many areas being dominated by a few groups. Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from…

A coach knows the rules, teaches the plays and helps the team succeed. That’ s exactly the aim of My Virtual Coach, a new interactive resource from the Principal Financial Group ®. It helps individuals see the big picture so they make successful, informed decisions about their retirement savings for the future.

North Carolina's largest community college, Wake Technical Community College, is partnering with Gravie to help its 60,000 students find the best individual health insurance plan for their needs, while also helping students over the age of 26 avoid penalties for not having insurance imposed by the Affordable Care Act. In Indiana, the state's largest public…

–John Hancock Retirement Plan Services, one of the largest providers of retirement plans in the United States, is pleased to announce its appointment by the Equity-League to administer the $217 million, 18,000 participant Equity-League 401 Plan, a Taft-Hartley multi-employer retirement plan. About John Hancock Financial and Manulife.

In fact, when asked which fictional character has the greatest need for life insurance, more than a third of respondents indicated that James Bond needs life insurance more than any other fictional character in the survey. Agent 007 was selected by nearly twice as many Americans as Homer Simpson and by five times as many Americans as Modern Family's Phil Dunphy–…

Benefitfocus, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based benefits management software, today announced that the MEI Employer Coalition of Southeastern Wisconsin has arranged for each of its member organizations to purchase BENEFITFOCUS ® Advanced Analytics to help evaluate more effective benefits strategies and control health care spending.

A.M. Best has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of A- and the issuer credit rating of“ a-” of Chautauqua Patrons Insurance Company. The rating outlook reflects Chautauqua’ s unprofitable underwriting performance in recent years, primarily due to weather-related claims including unprecedented catastrophe…

Dandridge was referring to an email scandal involving a state Supreme Court justice, top prosecutors and other law-enforcement officials. Last year, the state's Judicial Conduct Board and the special counsel hired by the Supreme Court cleared Eakin of wrongdoing, concluding that the emails were largely unremarkable. Earlier this month, the Daily News…

Nov. 19– The latest report on cleanup efforts at the former Whirlpool plant in Fort Smith describes the site as having “generally stable to decreasing trends” of toxic contamination from July through the end of September. A portion of Whirlpool Corp.' s sprawling property on Jenny Lind Road has been contaminated with trichloroethylene, or TCE, since at least 1989…

Focused on serving the insurance and risk management needs of its middle market and large corporate customers in Raleigh-Durham area, Wells Fargo Insurance, part of Wells Fargo& Company, named Jenny Myers, senior vice president and managing director for its Raleigh-Durham region. Based in Raleigh, she reports to Tom Longhta, regional managing director for…

SCRANTON– A Lewisburg man already facing charges for health insurance fraud and environmental crimes agreed Wednesday to plead guilty to income tax evasion. Brian J. Bolus, 45, of Lewisburg, reached the plea deal with federal prosecutors relating to his 2012 income tax return. Mr. Bolus, the son of Scranton businessman Bob Bolus, is awaiting trial in Northampton…