Jun
19

911吃瓜 Appoints Industry Veteran John Paolacci as Chief Operating Officer | Jun 2024

June 19, 2024 鈥� Chicago, IL 鈥� Longtime managed care executive John Paolacci has joined 911吃瓜 (911吃瓜) as the firm鈥檚 Chief Operating Officer. In this role, John will be responsible for continuous product optimization through customer delivery for all of 911吃瓜鈥檚 medical cost containment and medical care management services. Additionally, John will oversee the company鈥檚 Medicare compliance solutions, including its Section 111 reporting, a service line poised for growth given the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services impending changes to Medicare Set Aside reporting requirements.

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Jun
05

Medicare Set-Aside Reporting Rule Signals Major Change for Comp featuring 911吃瓜 CEO Jason Beans | Business Insurance | Jun 2024

June 5, 2024 鈥撀燛mployers, insurers and claimants should start planning for changes to how Medicare鈥檚 liabilities are accounted for in workers compensation settlements, experts say.

The changes, which will remove the reporting threshold in settlements that include Medicare set-asides and define penalty amounts, could increase the likelihood of significant fines for noncompliance and prolong settlement negotiations, they say.

May
21

911吃瓜 Receives Milwaukee, Chicago, and National 鈥淭op Workplaces” Awards | May 2024

May 21, 2024 鈥� Milwaukee, WI 鈥� Adding to its 2023 Top Workplaces award for the healthcare industry, 911吃瓜 (911吃瓜) today announced it has been named a 2024 Top Workplaces winner by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel which bestowed this title on 169 firms out of the 2,890 eligible in the region. With offices in multiple markets, this is the second regional Top Workplaces award 911吃瓜 has won in the past six months, having been recently recognized as a premier workplace by the Chicago Tribune. Earlier this year, USA Today also named 911吃瓜 a 2024 Top Workplaces USA winner, a national award that spans across all industries.

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Feb
05

Cost Rises Linked to Health Care Consolidation featuring 911吃瓜 CEO Jason Beans | Business Insurance | Feb 2024

February 5, 2024 鈥撀燭he acquisition of physician practices by large hospital systems is having an adverse effect on states鈥� workers compensation systems, experts say.

While proponents of so-called 鈥渧ertical integration鈥� in health care say the practice benefits consumers by delivering care more efficiently, workers comp researchers say consolidation drives up pricing due to decreased competition and can have a negative effect on return-to-work outcomes. And the efficiency argument, they say, relates to administrative efficiency, not patient care efficiency.

Jan
17

911吃瓜 Achieves HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) Certification Demonstrating the Highest Level of Information Protection Assurance | Jan 2024

January 17, 2024 鈥� Chicago, IL 鈥� 911吃瓜 (911吃瓜), a national managed care firm, announced today that its VISIONTM enterprise platform, along with its cloud-based data center solution, have earned HITRUST certification for information security.

911吃瓜鈥檚 proprietary VISIONTM healthcare management platform streamlines claims administration and provides a fully integrated, multi-product, multi-line, medical management portal for its payer customers. The HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) Certified status demonstrates that 911吃瓜鈥檚 VISIONTM software, and its underlying data center security controls, meet demanding regulatory compliance and industry-defined requirements to manage risk. This achievement places 911吃瓜 in an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned this distinction.

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Nov
15

Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study鈥檚 2023 Survey Underway, Polling Frontline Claims Professionals for First Time Since COVID | Nov 2023

November 15, 2023 鈥� Chicago, IL 鈥� The Workers鈥� Compensation Benchmarking Study鈥檚 is now open. For the second time in its 11-year history鈥攁nd for the first time since COVID鈥攖he 2023 study will survey frontline claims professionals (instead of claims executives) to ascertain alignment between industry leadership and staff who directly handle聽workers’ compensation claims. As the industry鈥檚 largest talent constituency, with the greatest influence on financial and injured worker outcomes, visibility into their views will highlight advancement opportunities for the entire industry.

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