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The Art of Creating a Physician Peer Review Panel, Part II: Contracting and Training

This article is the second in a two-part series about best practices for building a physician peer review panel. Click here to read the first article in the series, The Art of Creating a Physician Peer Review Panel, Part I. …

7 Technology Features to Look For In a Medical Management Software Platform

As medical costs continue to rise, workers’ compensation payors are looking for methods to identify expenses that can be controlled and ways to handle claims more efficiently. According to a Lockton white paper, medical expenses are now averaging well over …

American Claims Management Rebrands Pacific Claims Services to Marquee Managed Care Solutions

San Diego, CA, 02/01/13 – American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM), a national third party administrator, has rebranded one of its subsidiary services from Pacific Claims Services (PCS) to Marquee Managed Care Solutions. PCS provided full service medical management solutions for …

Drug Diversion Rx

Claims Departments on Guard as Prescription Drug Abuse Reaches Epidemic Levels Of the 2.1 billion prescriptions the American Medical Association estimates are written annually, nearly 25 percent of those were used by approximately 52 million Americans for something other than …