William E. Nixon- WorkCare President and CEO

AllOne Health’s occupational health business division is a natural fit for WorkCare.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (PRWEB)
November 12, 2021

WorkCare, Inc., a U.S.-based occupational health company with global outreach, completed the asset purchase of the occupational health segment of AllOne Health Resources, Inc., on Oct. 31, 2021.

WorkCare provides innovative employee health management solutions to employers in all types of industries under the direction of occupational medicine physicians, industry subject matter experts and information technology professionals. Over the last several years, AllOne Health has shifted its focus to the expansion of employee assistance programs (EAPs) and other mental health services, which created an opportunity for WorkCare to purchase the occupational health segment.

“We are excited about this opportunity to further expand our capabilities and welcome AllOne’s professional occupational health team to WorkCare,” said William E. Nixon, WorkCare’s president and chief executive officer. “It’s a natural fit for us. This purchase fulfills one of our primary business objectives for 2021. It allows WorkCare to build its client base, leverage AllOne Health’s established occupational health delivery networks and utilize its information technology platforms.”

“Completion of the asset purchase marks a transformational shift in the occupational health space as it brings together two talented occupational health teams offering state-of-the-art services to customers,” said Keith Wasley, president and chief executive officer of AllOne Health. “The future is bright for our occupational health team members and our occupational health customers.”

“Our origins are similar,” said WorkCare’s founder and Chief Medical Officer Peter P. Greaney, M.D. “AllOne Health was founded in 1971 by a group of physicians and is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. I founded WorkCare in 1984 with the intention of broadening access to occupational medicine expertise. With physician guidance, investments in technology and our people, and always listening to our customers, we have been able to support millions of employees on every step of their work-life journey – from hire to retire. I am gratified to be part of this important step in our growth as a company.”

AllOne Health’s occupational health division has more than 100 employees serving organizations throughout the U.S. and in 50 other countries. The division will continue to maintain its office in Wilmington, MA, further expanding WorkCare’s geographic footprint. WorkCare will now employ over 600 people, including clinicians and allied health professionals; operations and administrative personnel; and a dedicated IT team.

WorkCare has five business divisions: Medical Exams & Travel, Incident Intervention 24/7 telehealth triage, Onsite Services & Clinics, Consulting M.D.s and Clinical Assessment & Leave Management. In the past two years, WorkCare added a comprehensive suite of COVID-19 response services and an Industrial Athlete Program to its portfolio to protect and promote employee health. The company is based in Anaheim, Calif., and has onsite and remote work locations throughout the U.S.

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Joyce Rey

Among her recent accolades, Rey is designated one of “The Los Angeles 500 Most Influential People” by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (PRWEB)
November 12, 2021

For more than four decades, Joyce Rey, executive director, Coldwell Banker Global Luxury, has proven herself indispensable in the refined world of international luxury real estate. She is nothing short of a legend—among her celebrity clients, her professional colleagues, and the community she serves. One of the most respected names in top-tier real estate worldwide, Rey has amassed more than $3 billion in career sales. In 2017, Rey has had a record-breaking year including her newest listing of the Perenchio Estate, currently listed for $350 million dollars. With a dazzling list of accolades, awards, and sales records, she is known, most of all, for her incomparable knowledge of the luxury marketplace, her acute ability to negotiate even the most complex transactions, and her particular talent for putting clients at ease.

It is Rey’s commitment to “integrity, innovation, and attention to detail” that has led to her iconic status. Along the way, her name has consistently been included on “best of” lists for both her real estate production and her personal and professional influence. Again and again, she has topped records—including some of her own—for highest sales price ever.

Among her recent accolades, Rey is designated one of “The Los Angeles 500 Most Influential People” by the Los Angeles Business Journal, named the “First Lady of Luxury Real Estate” by the Chinese media, described as the “Billionaire’s Broker” by The Hollywood Reporter, and called the “Grand Dame of Real Estate” by the Los Angeles Times. Joyce is also ranked in the Top 20 Luxury Brokers in L.A. County by The Real Deal Los Angeles. Her experience and insight into the high-end market is frequently sought and quoted by the media, such as Forbes Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and the Today Show. She has appeared on many TV shows, such as E! Entertainment News with Michael Corbett, CNN’s Money Shot, and multiple foreign television shows.

Rey’s meteoric rise to real estate legend began in 1974, when her first sale was the unique residence of Christina Onassis. A sale to famed acting teacher Lee Strasberg—“They thought I was a genius,” Rey recalls—quickly paved the way for celebrated clients and landmark properties: Owlwood, Pickfair, and The Harold Lloyd Estate, to name a few. In 1979, she was invited to establish the first company in the United States to specialize exclusively in estates valued at more than $1 million. Since then, through every fluctuation in the economy and the market, Rey has consistently represented a choice collection of the most distinguished properties in the world.

With a generous as well as inventive attitude, Joyce has mentored an outstanding group of young agents. Working together to provide unparalleled service, her team achieves top-team rankings each year. Telling the Los Angeles Times, “I have an energetic spirit,” Rey’s business model includes the latest technology. With nearly 46,000 followers on Instagram, her social media prowess is matched only by the ease of her classic one-on-one personal service and discretion.

Despite the demands of her business, Rey remains passionately dedicated to civic and philanthropic projects. She serves on the Southern California Executive Board for UNICEF, the Los Angeles Library Foundation Advisory Board, and the Coldwell Banker Community Foundation Board. She has also been actively involved with the Music Center’s Blue Ribbon and their board, the St. Joseph’s Center for the Homeless, and Children Uniting Nations. Rey has been honored by the National Women’s Political Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Cancer Society, and a lifetime achievement award from the Los Angeles Board of Realtors. She is actively involved in the Women Presidents’ Organization and has long been an invited member of the prestigious Trusteeship of the International Women’s Forum.

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Simple, compliant, multi-party healthcare payments

“We’ve been using CoFi for several months and are extremely pleased with its ease of use and how it has reduced the administrative burden for our practice. We also appreciate the confidence of knowing the fees are being handled compliantly.” Dustin McKnight, M.D., Hunkeler Eye Institute

BOSTON (PRWEB)
November 12, 2021

CoFi, Inc., provider of a multi-party payments platform for elective medical procedures, today announced the wide-spread and growing adoption of its co-management payment solution for ophthalmology procedures.

Over 300 practices now use CoFi. This rapid adoption reflects the value derived from CoFi’s platform, which provides solutions long sought by ophthalmology and optometry practices.

Throughout ophthalmology, there is increasing awareness of allegations of non-compliance with the federal Anti-Kickback Statute when surgical practices co-manage with optometry practices, including the practice of collecting fees on behalf of optometrists, and essentially paying the optometrists like contractors.

With CoFi, each party involved in a procedure (e.g., ophthalmologist, optometrist, ambulatory surgery center) collects directly from the patient, through a single, convenient, and compliant payment event at the surgeon’s office.

“Payment separation – ensuring patients pay each provider directly for their services – avoids the potential for allegations of non-compliance when collecting fees for surgical procedures,” said Alan Reider of LSR Consulting, formerly at Arnold & Porter and a consultant to CoFi. “CoFi’s design addresses a key payment-related compliance risk around co-management in connection with the implantation of a premium IOL, as well as cash-pay refractive procedures, like LASIK and Refractive Lens Exchange.”

Today, the most common methods for facilitating payment separation are suboptimal. For example, ophthalmologists and optometrists report a significant administrative burden when the surgical practice calls the patient’s credit card over to the optometrist’s office, or collects two separate checks from the patient. Similarly, patients and optometrists express frustration around the payment and collection of co-management fees at the post-operative visit.

In addition to addressing compliance via payment separation, CoFi offers:

• Incredible ease of use – creating a multi-party invoice and processing the patient payment is easier than booking a hotel room online.
• Enhanced patient satisfaction – CoFi eliminates having to pay different parties at different points in time, something every healthcare consumer considers a nuisance and frustration.
• Better partnerships – co-managing optometrists highly value the unprecedented visibility they get into the status of their patients and payments.

CoFi’s multi-party platform also can include payments to surgical facilities (ASCs, hospitals) and other providers (such as anesthesiologists).

“Refractive cataract surgery is a premium, life-changing procedure that deserves a premium payment experience,” said Tal Raviv, M.D., of Eye Center of New York in Manhattan and Chief Medical Officer for CoFi. “In the past, asking my patients to make three or four separate payments — at different times and locations — created confusion and frustration. With CoFi, my patients can essentially ‘swipe once’ and directly pay the facility, the co-managing optometrist, and surgeon with transparency and ease.”

“We’ve been using CoFi for several months now and are extremely pleased with its ease of use and how it has reduced the administrative burden for our practice. We also appreciate the confidence of knowing the fees are being handled compliantly,” said Dustin McKnight, M.D., ophthalmologist at Hunkeler Eye Institute in Overland Park, KS. “All of our co-managing optometrists are on CoFi and are grateful we’ve adopted this product.”

About CoFi CoFi, Inc. provides an innovative, multi-party payment platform for elective medical procedures. Using CoFi, each party collects directly from the patient, through a single, convenient payment event at the surgeon’s office. Our software enables providers and surgical facilities to offer a premium payment experience to their premium patients. CoFi has seen growing market adoption in ophthalmology, where the platform delivers critical payment compliance and work-flow advantages to surgeons, co-managing optometrists, and ambulatory surgery centers for premium cataract and LASIK procedures. Learn more at http://www.cofimd.com.

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ROHNERT PARK, Calif. (PRWEB)
November 12, 2021

The accounts receivable industry’s leading information portal, NexaCollect, has addressed several concerns that collection agencies must follow regarding Regulation-F that comes into effect from Nov 30, 2021. These changes include new restrictions while contacting a debtor over the phone, obtaining consent for electronic communications like email and text messages, additional disclosures and itemized breakdown of all payments, fees, and interest, and finally preventing the use of temporary credit reporting as a collection tool. Itemization date refers to the transaction date, last payment date, charge-off date, last settlement date or judgment date.

Before a collection agency reports to the credit bureau, they need to make a contact with the consumer regarding the debt, either by mail or phone. If they receive a mail return, it is not counted as a valid contact.

Nexacollect attempts to ensure that its medical collection agency partners are HIPAA, FDCPA, TCPA and Regulation F compliant. These rules apply to consumer collection agencies for dental collection agencies also. Commercial collections remain almost untouched by these new CFPB laws.

Most collection agencies are very concerned and scrambling to comply with these new rules and potential lawsuits this may invite in case of violations. Although this rule does not apply to older accounts already in collections, however, this does apply to all debts assigned for debt collections starting November 30, 2021. Therefore, the collection agency staff must contact all their existing clients and request them to provide the original balance, interest, fees, payments, or adjustments the account has incurred from the date of service. They must also ask for the exact date of delinquency. For clients whose data is loaded through the automated process, those integrations will require modification as well.

As per these new rules, without adequate information, a collection agency will not be able to perform collection activities in a Regulation F compliant manner. Debt collectors must also be trained so that their collection tactics and frequency of contacting debtors/patients do not violate these updated guidelines. So yes, there is a significant cost associated for collection agencies with becoming compliant with this new law.

Thinking broadly, this new rule brings greater transparency in the whole collection process. It eliminates some of the unethical practices that are currently being utilized by a few collection agencies, especially using passive credit reporting as a collection tool. This rule also restates and clarifies specific prohibitions on harassment and abuse, false or misleading representations, and unfair practices that are allegedly being used by some collection agencies today.

NexaCollect has assisted several businesses, institutions, and medical professionals to recover money from their past-due accounts through its partners effectively.

For any more information, contact Jessica at support@nexacollect.com or call 1-844-Nexa-123

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