GreenWood International Insurance Services, Inc.

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Medical Stop Loss

Boston Mutual
Based in Canton, MA, Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company prides itself on its financial strength and the ability to provide high quality products that are specially designed to meet the needs and cost objectives of their clients. Boston Mutual maintains a strong commitment to service and excellence for its policyholders and sales partners. Since 1891, Boston Mutual has stood the test of time through wars and depression providing financial security to over one million policyholders.

GreenWood International Insurance Services, Inc upholds a long-standing and unique relationship with Boston Mutual. Boston Mutual’s sales team have the capabilities of distributing Medical Stop Loss product on behalf of GWI, however Boston Mutual does not retain any risk on this product. Risk is written through a GWI relationship with an additional insurance carrier. Other group products offered by Boston Mutual include Basic and Voluntary Life, AD&D, and Short and Long Term Disability. All products offer cost effective rating and competitive commissions. For additional information about Boston Mutual, please click here.

Chubb Group of Insurance Companies

Insurance - Property/ Casualty (Data Consolidation)

A++

Stable

US: New Jersey

Occupational Accident

Texas Healthcare Foundation
Texas Healthcare Foundation (“THF”) provides extensive claims management and managed healthcare to thousands of employers who have opted out of the Texas workers' compensation system ("Nonsubscribers"). THF has proudly served the Nonsubscriber community since 1992 by operating on the simple philosophy that employers deserve to receive the highest level of savings and customer service while their injured employees benefit from the best healthcare to expedite their return to the workplace. Just ask any of THF’s long-time customers!

C. V. Starr and Co., Inc.
C. V. Starr and Co., Inc. (C. V. Starr) is an independently owned company with insurance agencies and a portfolio of global investments. Through its wholly owned insurance agencies, C. V. Starr writes specialty lines covering aviation, marine, energy, excess casualty and property, accident and health, excess stop loss insurance for employer sponsored benefit plans, including risks with international exposures. These agencies provide a broad spectrum of value-added specialized services including claims handling and settlement, risk assessment and loss prevention, and customer-focused attention. C. V. Starr’s significant presence in global markets, backed by the company’s international expertise, has made it an industry leader for more than 50 years. C. V. Starr is headquartered in New York. For more information, please visit www.cvstarr.com.

Starr Indemnity & Liability Company
Starr Indemnity & Liability Company (Starr Indemnity) is an indirectly wholly owned subsidiary of Starr International Company, Inc. Starr Indemnity is a well capitalized insurance company with a strong balance sheet. Starr Indemnity provides high quality, customized property and casualty insurance products and accompanying loss control, claims management, administrative and reinsurance services to its policyholders. Starr Indemnity was incorporated in 1919.

ACE USA Accident & Health is a marketing division of ACE USA, headquartered in Philadelphia. ACE American Insurance Company, the primary ACE underwriting company for accident and health insurance in the U.S., is part of The ACE Group of Companies. ACE USA’s Accident & Health division is committed to responding to the special needs of our customers with insurance solutions that provide greater stability in an ever-changing accident and health marketplace.

ACE American Insurance Company, part of the ACE Group of Companies, underwrites the Accident Products comprised of Business Travel Accident, Basic Accident, Voluntary Personal Accident and Carve-Out Accident Plans. Illinois Union Insurance Company is also a part of the ACE Group of Companies and underwrites the Primary Employers Indemnity Plan. Both companies enjoy excellent ratings from the major insurance company rating services:

A.M Best A+
Standard & Poor’s A+
Moody’s A2
Fitch A+
These ratings are an indication of the company’s financial strength and ability to meet its obligations to customers.

Personal Accident

ACE American Insurance Company
ACE USA Accident & Health
Headquartered in Bermuda since its inception in 1985, ACE was created to satisfy a market need for excess liability and excess directors and officers insurance. Through its strategic acquisitions and entry into the global accident and health market, ACE now does business around the world with underwriting programs tracing their history back to 1792.

As an organization dedicated to providing client, shareholder, and employee value, ACE fosters an environment of professional excellence that enables its employees to deliver on the ACE promise to be creative, agile, innovative, and ethical in meeting the needs of their customers and producers.

The ACE Group of Companies is one of the world’s leading providers of insurance and reinsurance. ACE USA is the U.S.-based operating division of The ACE Group of Companies, headed by ACE Limited (NYSE: ACE). ACE USA provides insurance products and services in the U.S. through its subsidiaries and in over 50 countries worldwide on a locally admitted basis through ACE’s global subsidiaries.

A.M Best A+
Standard & Poor’s A+
Moody’s A2
Fitch A+

These ratings are an indication of the company’s financial strength and ability to meet its obligations to customers.

Consulting Partners of GreenWood International Insurance Services, Inc.

Dr. Stacey Borans – Advanced Medical Strategies
Dr. Borans is the Chief Medical Officer and Founder of Advanced Medical Strategies (AMS). Advanced Medical Strategies was founded with the purpose of combining clinical expertise and experience with financial sensitivity and understanding to give clients high-level cost containment insight and guidance.

Dr. Borans has worked with Managing General Underwriters, Third Party Administrators, stop loss carriers and managed care plans to assess both clinical and financial questions on catastrophic claims. She has assisted in cost projection analysis for underwriting risk, reviewed medical necessity and experimental concerns as well as directed educational seminars for claims professionals. Dr. Borans is currently the outsourced medical director for several companies within the stop-loss industry.

In addition to her vast medical management experience on the payor side, Dr. Borans has overseen medical and quality management, appropriateness of care and peer review programs in over 50 hospitals spanning 7 states. Her leadership and experience in spanning the physician-nursing relationship has led to hospitals experiencing vast improvement in case and utilization management efficiency.

Prior to founding AMS, Dr. Borans was a practicing internist at Doylestown Hospital. She received her MD degree from Hahnemann University and completed her residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Dr. Stacey Borans assists in the development and maintenance of quality medical management strategies and programs. Dr. Borans provides expert medical analysis of complex claims files, clinical opinions and direction that supports appropriate case management activity and serves as a direct medical authority to GreenWood International Insurance Services, Inc.'s underwriting and claims staff.

ITA Partners
ITA Partners, Inc.®, is the nation’s only independent cancer risk management company; it is not a network, part of an insurance or pharmaceutical company, nor a specialty pharmacy vendor. ITA helps payers reduce their exposure by ensuring evidence-based treatment is prescribed and followed. ITA oncology professionals, using state-of-the-art, proprietary health information technology, deliver these services:

Treatment plan validation — Expertise in the latest guidelines ensures clients and their members pay only for appropriate care. Treatment plans are also compared to Plan and medical stop-loss contract language to ensure consistent reimbursement.
Education and self-care — Direct patient support improves treatment adherence, minimizes side effects, reduces complications, and improves medical outcomes.
Claims assistance — Clinical and financial expertise in the review of claims in all aspects of oncology lowers costs for clients and extends member benefit dollars.
Regular reporting — Customized reports enable clients to understand, manage, and price cancer risk at the individual and group levels.

ITA serves as an extension of the doctor’s office; it does not replace patients’ doctors, nor mandate the treatment they prescribe. ITA improves medical and financial outcomes by addressing underlying clinical conditions of the 120 diseases known as cancer.

“Leslie, my ITA nurse, is wonderful. I love her. When she calls, I jump in, telling her, ‘This is what I'm feeling. Is it right? Is it wrong? What should I do?’ No other medical staff do this for me.” C.B., September 2008

OptumHealth
For more than a decade OptumHealth has been identifying costly, complex and catastrophic conditions for which there is a quantifiable variance among treatment providers. More than 3,000 payor groups, representing over 45 million lives have chosen to utilize OptumHealth solutions for their high cost, highly complex conditions. Through OptumHealth's Complex Medical Condition (CMC) contracts, clients save an average of 35-45 percent off of standard industry charges. Patients with complex, unusual or rare medical conditions have a likelihood of better outcomes when they are diagnosed and treated by medical professionals with the greatest experience and statistically validated clinical expertise. OptumHealth's continuum of products may be used individually, in partial-combination or in total to meet a payor/employer's specific risk bearing needs. CMC's products and services are designed to support safe, successful and cost-effective management of patients in the clinical areas of cancer, transplantation, kidney disease and congenital heart disease, women's health services and bariatric surgery. Products range from Centers of Excellence networks and nurse consulting services to traditional case management and options to abdicate risk.

ProgenyHealth
ProgenyHealth is a leading provider of neonatal care coordination services, focused on meeting the unique health care needs of infants in intensive care nurseries. Working with payors throughout the US, they provide their expertise in managing the care coordination needs of high-risk and medically complex newborns.

The team at ProgenyHealth has an extensive amount of managed care and clinical experience. They create value for their clients by promoting an evidence-based approach to practice, decreasing variations in care practices, which results in quality outcomes. The medical team at ProgenyHealth is made up of practicing neonatologists, pediatricians, and knowledgeable NICU nurses/nurse practitioners who are on the cutting edge of current neonatal practices and trends.

ProgenyHealth is unique in the marketplace in that they believe that care management should not end when a baby is discharged from the hospital. The professionals at ProgenyHealth continue to coordinate all inpatient, outpatient, pharmaceutical and home care services for infants and their families throughout the first year of life. Families also have access to customized online plans of care, extensive educational libraries and ProgenyHealth NICU case managers are on-call, available to them 24/7.

ACE Privacy Notice

This is not a policy of workers’ compensation insurance. The employer does not become a subscriber to the workers’ compensation system by purchasing this policy, and if the employer is a non-subscriber, the employer loses these benefits which would otherwise accrue under the workers’ compensation laws. The employer must comply with the worker’s compensation law as it pertains to non-subscribers and the required notifications that must be filed and posted.

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