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Business: Executives

Nicholas Reynolds appointed Chief Underwriting Officer at Berkley Asset Protection

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Nick Reynolds, Chief Underwriter Office, Berkley Asset Protection

Nick Reynolds, Berkley Asset Protection

With more than 30 years of experience in the insurance industry, Nick Reynold’s knowledge and unparalleled insights have made him a frequent speaker and panelist for insurance and trade groups.


NEW YORK (PRWEB)

Nicholas Reynolds, an officer of Berkley Asset Protection since its inception, has been appointed global Chief Underwriting Officer for the company. Berkley Asset Protection, established in 2008, is the leading specialty insurance provider for all aspects of fine art, jewelry and specie businesses.

In his new role, Reynolds is responsible for managing the company’s underwriting performance across all lines and platforms. He also serves as the company’s Senior Vice President for global fine art, specie and commercial lines.

Commenting on the appointment, Joseph “Chip” Dowd said, “Nick is a proven leader with significant experience, expertise, and insights. He is a highly skilled underwriter with a customer-centric focus that complements our experienced team at Berkley Asset Protection. We are pleased to have him take on this role.”

He started his career as a broker at Lloyd’s of London, moving in 1991 to the United States, where he gained valuable experience in the retail brokerage market before moving into underwriting. With more than 30 years of experience in the insurance industry, his knowledge and unparalleled insights have made him a frequent speaker and panelist for insurance and trade groups.

He graduated with honors from the Queen Mary College, University of London, with a Bachelors in Law degree.

About Berkley Asset Protection

Berkley Asset Protection, a Berkley company, is a leading specialty insurance provider for all aspects of fine art and jewelry businesses: jewelers block, fine art, commercial property and liability, and workers’ compensation. The company also offers Lavalier Personal Jewelry Insurance and insurance for individuals’ collections.

Products and services are provided by one or more insurance company subsidiaries of W. R. Berkley Corporation. Not all products and services are available in every jurisdiction, and the precise coverage afforded by any insurer is subject to the actual terms and conditions of the policies as issued.

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Health

ANS Solutions Announces Rebrand

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“Our new brand showcases our heartfelt belief that we can change the outcome by changing the approach,” said Anthony Sambucini, CEO, ANS Solutions.


SOMERVILLE, N.J. (PRWEB)

ANS Solutions, a leader in workers’ compensation medical cost containment, announced today a comprehensive rebrand, which includes a new logo and website. The new brand will be unveiled at the company’s booth (#2340) during the National Workers’ Compensation & Disability Conference November 6–8, 2019.

“Our new brand showcases our heartfelt belief that we can change the outcome by changing the approach,” said Anthony Sambucini, CEO, ANS Solutions.

Of their new tagline, Sambucini says, “‘Pioneering New Possibilities’ is a reminder and a promise: that as we continue to grow and expand our capabilities, we will continue to fight for more outcomes that benefit everyone—clients, physicians, partners, and most importantly, injured workers.”

The rebrand elevates the focus on the value that ANS provides: a unique blend of their personalized, face-to-face approach, unmatched medical and jurisdictional expertise, and industry leading success rates across all solutions.

ANS will continue to offer their existing marketplace-leading solutions while also seeking out new opportunities to positively impact the world of medical cost containment, delivering better solutions and better results.

“Our programs are built on trust, powered by partnership, and designed to help resolve even the most complex cases,” said Anne Sambucini, Chairperson, ANS. “We can now say the ANS brand is a direct reflection of that commitment to collaboration and excellence.”

Please visit http://www.ans-solutions.com/pioneering to explore the new brand.

About ANS:

For 14 years, ANS has worked tirelessly to build powerful partnerships within the workers’ compensation, medical provider, and legal communities. We offer a personalized approach that starts with giving each and every case the time, attention, and respect it deserves—and ends with giving patients, adjusters, and physicians results they feel good about.

ANS currently offers four unique solutions, including a pharmacy intervention program—which has played a significant role in reducing opioid usage in injured workers—as well as Medicare Set-Aside, medical cost projection, and nurse expert services.

Our clients include many of the nation’s leading insurance carriers, Fortune 1000 self-insured companies, large public entities, state workers’ compensation funds and guarantee associations, and the largest third-party administrators in the United States. To learn more about working with us, please visit http://www.ans-solutions.com/pioneering.

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Technology: Computer

Hystax Acura now supports Disaster Recovery and Live Cloud Migration to Google Cloud Platform

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Hystax Acura usage grants you fast and simple access to GCP services in all major spheres including groundbreaking solutions for storage, compute, networking, etc.


SUNNYVALE, Calif. (PRWEB)

By leveraging Hystax Acura, businesses of all sizes can achieve fully automated lift-and-shift of their applications to Google Cloud Platform with consistent background replication and instant launch of workloads on a target site. Hystax Acura, sophisticated software for any-to-any workloads migration and Disaster Recovery designed and developed by Hystax team, optimizes this transition by thorough orchestration and accommodating diverse assets that influence the process.

Hystax Acura enables protection, backup and restore data capabilities for on-premises servers, virtual machines and virtualized workloads in the native Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. Hystax Backup and Disaster Recovery to GCP guarantees consistent data deduplication and WAN-optimization, achieved by proprietary technologies of client-side data and network traffic compression.

Google Cloud Platform services are currently available in 200+ countries and territories across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia; that is 20 regions, 60+ zones and 130+ network edge locations. Moving to GCP, one of the leading cloud computing solutions, with Hystax Live Cloud Migration and Disaster Recovery enhances elimination of hardships and challenges of commissioning new cloud infrastructure. Hystax Acura usage grants you fast and simple access to GCP services in all major spheres including groundbreaking solutions for storage, compute, networking, etc.

Live Cloud Migration to Google Cloud Platform is fully automated software to migrate all types of workloads from any source platform, whether it’s cloud environment or bare metal. Using Hystax Acura for Backup and Disaster Recovery to Google Cloud Platform allows to involve a cloud-native and fully automated solution with consistent replication, storage-agnostic snapshots, and orchestration functionality. Hystax Acura offers enterprise-grade Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO). The solution is application and Operating System agnostic, agentless, fast, secure and meets cloud migration, Disaster Recovery and backup needs of any business and industry. Unlimited number of test migrations, fully managed migration process, orchestrated launch and predictable cutover distinguishes Hystax Acura and make cloud migration to GCP a simple and straightforward process cutting project timelines from months to days. Hystax Live Cloud Migration to GCP enables all-size businesses to modernize IT infrastructure by switching the environment to high performance Google Cloud Platform.

Supported source platforms: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, VMware, Hyper-V, OpenStack, KVM, physical machines.

Application agnostic: SAP, Microsoft Active Directory, PostgreSQL, Oracle, NGINX, RedHat Jboss Enterprise, IBM WebSphere, Apache, VMware vSphere, MySQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, Spark etc.

Operating System agnostic: Windows, RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu.

Hystax comprehensive and creative solution with replication and protection options for secure, scalable and cost-effective IT environment enables companies to bring the workloads to Google Cloud Platform in an accelerated and efficient way.

About Hystax

Hystax was founded in 2016 by a seasoned team of entrepreneurs and engineers with a mission to address digital transformation challenges by introducing hybrid cloud management platform with a focus on IT budget control, hybrid cloud enablement, live cloud migration and IT Resilience. The platform combines substantial capabilities into a unique product offering that helps businesses keep IT costs under control, forecast and optimize monthly spending, manage workloads by seamless cloud migration and business continuity.

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Technology: Electronics

Esker Applies B2C Customer Experience Best Practices to B2B

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Esker is committed to making our customers feel valued, understood and engaged.


MIDDLETON, Wis. (PRWEB)

Esker, a worldwide leader in AI-driven process automation solutions and pioneer in cloud computing, today announced its continued development and increased investment in Customer Experience (CX) worldwide. Esker’s objective is to deliver the best possible customer experience, improve customer satisfaction and ensure customers benefit from their cloud-based solution long term. Esker’s CX approach addresses customers’ growing expectations in the B2B sector, particularly in the software industry.

Esker has built its success on customer satisfaction. With sustained growth and an increasing number of customers around the world, Esker continues to innovate with a worldwide CX approach to support customers locally and globally.

“Already pervasive in the B2C environment, CX is just as important in B2B, particularly in cloud-based activities where the customer relationship is long lasting. In mature markets, like the software industry, it’s no longer enough to just deliver a quality product,” said Steve Smith, U.S. chief operating officer at Esker. “Esker is committed to making our customers feel valued, understood and engaged. We are dedicated to their continued success.”

An Innovative CX Approach

Esker’s approach to customer success has aided all company departments in addressing and implementing critical end-user feedback, not only related to the solution itself, but also in regard to training, documentation and technical support. Esker’s CX services strive to create better customer experiences through several objectives:


  • Measure and improve user satisfaction at each milestone via indicators such as Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT), Net Promoter Score (NPS) or Churn Rate (Customer Loss Rates)

  • Accompany customers through personalized (high touch) and collective (low touch) approaches such as audits of end-user practices and suggestions for improving solution use, trainings, setting up user communities to share best practices via webinars, white papers, etc.

  • Provide feedback from the field to the various departments involved, as concrete feedback is used to advance software and services solutions based on experience and facts

Dedicated Teams

Initiated in the U.S., Esker’s CX approach has extended to all global subsidiaries through the creation of dedicated teams. Each subsidiary has its own CX team to ensure the same quality of service in all countries. These local teams take into account the language, culture and behavior of end users.

About Esker

Esker is a worldwide leader in cloud-based document process automation software, helping financial and customer service departments digitally transform their purchase-to-pay (P2P) and order-to-cash (O2C) cycles. Used by more than 6,000 companies worldwide, Esker’s solutions incorporate technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) to drive increased productivity, enhanced visibility, reduced fraud risk, and improved collaboration with customers, suppliers and internally. Esker operates in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific with global headquarters in Lyon, France, and U.S. headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin. For more information on Esker and its solutions, visit http://www.esker.com. Follow Esker on Twitter @EskerInc and join the conversation on the Esker blog at blog.esker.com.

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Society: Disabled Issues / Disabilities

Hood College Granted $45,000 for Co-Taught Education Study

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“We are grateful for the support of the MD Department of Education, Div. of Early Intervention for…this grant to better ensure that future special education teachers & general education teachers are prepared to teach in an inclusive classroom,” said Strickland, Associate Professor at Hood College.


FREDERICK, Md. (PRWEB)

The Maryland State Department of Education has awarded a grant of nearly $45,000 to Hood College to explore specially designed instruction in classrooms that are co-taught by general education and special education teachers.

Tricia Strickland, Ph.D., and Kristy Calo, Ph.D., both associate professors of education at Hood, are the leads on the grant. Through the grant, entitled “Specially Designed Instruction in a Co-Taught Classroom: Professional Development for Teacher Candidates, Mentor Teachers, and College Supervisors,” they hope to better prepare Hood’s teacher candidates to provide specially designed instruction to students with disabilities.

“We are so grateful for the support of the Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Early Intervention / Special Education Services for awarding us this grant to better ensure that future special education teachers and general education teachers are prepared to teach in an inclusive classroom,” said Strickland.

Surveys and focus groups of teachers and administrators from approximately 25 Frederick County Public Schools will provide data regarding the skills and knowledge needed for teacher candidates to successfully include specially designed instruction in co-taught classrooms at the elementary and middle school levels. After analyzing this data, a professional development training manual and seminar will be developed. Teacher candidates, FCPS mentor teachers and college supervisors will be invited to attend the seminar and use the evidence-based strategies in their co-taught classrooms.

“This grant gives us the opportunity to ensure that our teacher candidates have the tools and skills they need to successfully meet the needs of all children in their future classrooms,” said Calo.

According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), special education means specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parents, to meet the unique needs of a child with a disability. Embedding specially designed instruction in co-taught classrooms provides students with disabilities access to and supports for achieving in the general education curriculum.

About Hood College

Hood College is an independent, liberal arts college, offering 28 bachelor’s degrees, four pre-professional programs, 19 master’s degrees programs, two doctorates and 10 post-baccalaureate certificates. Located in historic Frederick, near Washington, D.C., Baltimore and the I-270 technology corridor, Hood gives students access to countless internships and research opportunities.

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health and fitness

Swamp Fitness Offers a Convenient Way to Get Health Results by Providing In-Home Exercise & Nutrition Coaching

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Personal Trainer Gainesville FL

Our best form of marketing is doing everything we can to provide convenience, and ultimately empower our clients to get health and fitness results!


GAINESVILLE, Fla. (PRWEB)

The founder of Swamp Fitness, Jarred Mussen, has been helping Alachua County residents get results by re-igniting their healthy habits for more than seven years. Many people want to improve their health and fitness results or get started on their health journey but are lacking the motivation, guidance, and accountability. This leaves many people putting off an exercise routine or healthy nutrition plan. Many Gainesville residents are challenged with finding time to consistently drive to the gym, let alone create an exercise and nutrition plan that is effective within their busy lifestyle.

Faced with greater time constraints from work, childcare, etc., Americans often skip out on exercise and turn to more convenient food options with lower nutritional values. Although not exercising and opting for unhealthy convenience foods both save time, they tend to leave people with less energy and a poor mood. The consequences of not establishing consistent exercise and healthy nutrition habits has many health risks and can have a major negative impact on our mental health which takes away from the important areas of our lives that are taking up our time.

In order to protect health and quality of life, many feel the need for a proactive solution to empower individuals to get effective health results such as working with a personal trainer Gainesville FL. Health experts recommend that adults should be getting at least 150 minutes of exercise per week. This task can be monumental to people who are struggling with losing weight, improving mood and energy, as well as preventing health conditions such as high blood pressure, depression, diabetes, and obesity. Many middle-aged individuals have an awakening after learning about the reality of their current health state from their doctor, causing them to take action with prioritizing their health in effort to make the most of life.

Hiring a personal trainer in Gainesville, FL that will travel to the clients’ home within the schedule that works best for the client’s lifestyle is very effective at not just getting the client their desired fitness results, but also establishing the sustainable routine habits that will help the client stay committed even after they finish their personal training program. The accountability of a fitness professional showing up to the client’s home ensures that they stay consistent with their exercise and nutrition program.

The company, Swamp Fitness has a team of Registered Dietitian Nutritionists and Certified Personal Trainers in Gainesville, FL who truly care about you and your health and have expertise with providing individually customized exercise prescription and nutritional coaching. Swamp Fitness matches you with the personal trainer and registered dietitian nutritionist that is the best fit for you based on your goals, personality, and preferred training style. Rather than having to carve out time to drive to the gym and come up with a plan, this company has been able to offer Gainesville personal training at your preferred location (such as your home) and within the availability that works best within your life. They understand the importance of your health and truly want you to live life to the fullest.

Swamp Fitness has these four core values at the essence of how they operate: Authenticity. Compassion. Responsibility. Progress. Their Gainesville personal training services are for people who need it most, those who you don’t see in the gym and are having major challenges with living a healthy lifestyle and getting the health and fitness results they want. Their message that they are trying to get out is that they are committed to helping Gainesville residents get health results in the comfort and convenience of their own home and within their availability. Contact Jarred Mussen for further information at SwampFitness@gmail.com or call to speak directly with Jarred at 352-562-0444. You can also visit https://www.swampfitness.com/.

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Industry: Healthcare

Corstrata Announces Rafael Mazuz as New Senior Advisor

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SAVANNAH, Ga. (PRWEB)

Corstrata, Inc., a leading, tech-enabled, virtual wound management company, has announced the appointment of Rafael Mazuz as a Senior Advisor to the company. Mazuz is the Managing Director of Diligence Wound Care Global, the world’s leading wound care and regenerative medicine advisory firm, empowering executives, investors, and specialists to be confident in their wound care business decisions.

As a former corporate wound center executive, Mazuz brings deep industry knowledge combined with powerful wound care intelligence and a global network of experts. He advises the majority of top global wound care product brands and investors, serves on the boards of innovative wound-related startups, speaks at key industry events such as The European Wound Management Association (EWMA) conference and The Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) and serves on the editorial advisory board of Today’s Wound Clinic.

“The overwhelming majority of advanced wound care innovation and investment focus in recent decades has been on the physical products used in treatment,” said Mazuz. “However, the opportunity to empower clinicians to better treat and manage patients with complex wounds is likely far greater, despite the relative lack of focus historically.”

“Having actively followed and been in contact with Corstrata since its inception, I’m thrilled to be collaborating with them to further activate and share their expertise with the massive cohort of clinicians who are otherwise faced with difficult-to-heal wounds without the benefit of years of specialized training, experience, and advanced technologies.”

“We are honored for Mr. Mazuz to join Corstrata as a Senior Advisor,” said Katherine Piette, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Corstrata. “We believe his vast knowledge of the national and international wound industry, coupled with his expertise in healthcare strategy, business development, and venture capital will be invaluable during Corstrata’s next phase of growth.”

Corstrata is tackling the big challenge of chronic wound care. This “silent epidemic” affects more than 6.5M people in the U.S. at a staggering cost of $39B annually. These numbers are on the rise due to the increased incidence of obesity, diabetes, vascular disease, and other contributing diseases. This problem is compounded by the scarcity and lack of access to wound experts, especially in the post-acute provider space where only 10% of certified wound care nurses practice. This results in a tremendous rate of misdiagnosis, ineffective treatments, poor clinical outcomes, and wasted resources, all producing critical data amassed by Corstrata in its analytics platform to inform its treatment algorithms for driving optimal care. Corstrata’s service-enabled technology platform provides access to wound experts to improve clinical outcomes at a lower cost per wound patient.

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Home and Family: Marriage / Relationships

S.K. CO’s newly released “Premarital Manual” is a masterful handbook that explains the real essence of marriage.

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MEADVILLE, Pa. (PRWEB)

“Premarital Manual”: a contemporary tome that provides steps to be followed by the married couple to achieve a happy married life. “Premarital Manual” is the creation of published author S.K. CO, a writer who has a vast love and strong faith in God.

S.K. CO writes, “Marriage was designed by God. It was meant to be something good, exciting, and joyful. It was designed to be so fulfilling that only death would be able to separate the union.

“The automobile, computer, architectonical, aviation industries, etc., all put together an owner’s manual. The intent is to give the consumer an idea of what they are getting in the way of performance, quality, safety, stability, durability, and the expected longevity of their design. Marriage, like everything else, needs a simple and clear set of instructions.”

Published by Christian Faith Publishing, S.K. CO’s new book shares a realization to the readers that married life have also a process in attaining a stronger relationship.

With this purpose, the author aims to give the readers an input about the real meaning of marriage and how to strengthen the relationship between the couples.

View a synopsis of “Premarital Manual” on YouTube.

Consumers can purchase “Premarital Manual” at traditional brick & mortar bookstores, or online at Amazon.com, Apple iTunes store, or Barnes and Noble.

For additional information or inquiries about “Premarital Manual,” contact the Christian Faith Publishing media department at 866-554-0919.

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Business: Insurance

Does Car Insurance Reimburse Drivers For Damage Caused By Natural Hazards?

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LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)

Cheapquotesautoinsurance.com has launched a new blog post that explains how various natural hazards can damage a vehicle and what car insurance policies will reimburse the owner.

For more info and free car insurance quotes online, visit https://cheapquotesautoinsurance.com/natural-hazards-that-can-damage-your-vehicle/

Natural disasters can do a lot of damage to vehicles. In many cases, the damage done to a vehicle is so severe that it is declared a total loss. Drivers will need to purchase comprehensive insurance if they want to be reimbursed for the costs to repair or replace a vehicle damaged by various natural hazards:


  • Tornadoes. Drivers who live in states affected by tornadoes, know very well how devastating they are. A tornado can damage a vehicle in several ways. Vehicles can be picked up in the air and tossed hundreds of yards away, or they can be bombarded by the falling debris.

  • Hurricanes. Flooding the interior of a vehicle and destroying its internal components is just one of the ways hurricanes can damage a vehicle.

  • Hailstorms. Hail can do significant damage to a policyholder’s vehicle. If the car owner doesn’t protect his car by storing it in a garage, then these little ice lumps can damage the car’s windshield, windows or event dent its roof.

  • Earthquakes. In case of a major earthquake, vehicles can suffer damage in multiple ways. Either if a tree falls over, or a sinkhole swallows it, the only insurance that covers the vehicle from losses caused by this unfortunate events is the comprehensive insurance.

  • Lighting storms. Although rare, lighting can hit a policyholder’s vehicle. The damaged done to a vehicle hit by lighting can range from simple burn marks to electrical damage that can lead to a fire.

For additional info, money-saving tips and free car insurance quotes, visit https://cheapquotesautoinsurance.com

Cheapquotesautoinsurance.com is an online provider of life, home, health, and auto insurance quotes. This website is unique because it does not simply stick to one kind of insurance provider, but brings the clients the best deals from many different online insurance carriers. In this way, clients have access to offers from multiple carriers all in one place: this website. On this site, customers have access to quotes for insurance plans from various agencies, such as local or nationwide agencies, brand names insurance companies, etc.

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Business: Executives

Trella Health Appoints New Strategy and Technology Leaders

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ATLANTA (PRWEB)

Trella Health, the leading source for current and complete outcomes data and performance analytics, announces two key additions to the Trella team: Matthew Tabor as the Vice President of Strategy and Business Development and Pierre Menard as the Chief Technology Officer.

“Pierre and Matthew are fantastic additions to our already outstanding management team, further positioning us for industry leading growth and innovation,” said Ian Juliano, CEO of Trella Health. “Matt’s deep background across the plan and system space will bring new insights as we expand into additional markets, and Pierre’s experience in leading technology teams will enable us to innovate at an even faster pace. These new leaders are the perfect addition to our executive team to help lead Trella Health’s accelerated growth.”

Matthew is an accomplished healthcare strategist. He brings nearly two decades of experience in healthcare, with a focus on defining and executing business strategy, driving performance improvement, and leading transformation initiatives. Matthew is responsible for developing Trella Health’s strategic growth in current and future verticals and partnering with the executive team to prioritize and lead growth initiatives.

Pierre’s 20 years of experience brings breadth and depth in technology leadership, including planning and execution, product innovation and operations. His background and expertise in digital transformation, big data, and technology management span numerous verticals, including payers, population health and pharmaceuticals. Pierre will lead the technology organization, craft the development and operations strategy, and create a vision for our technical architecture.

About Trella Health

Trella Health provides acute, ambulatory, and post-acute organizations with the most complete picture of care activity in their service areas. As one of only a few companies in the country deemed ‘Innovators’ under the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service’s Virtual Research Data Center Program, Trella has access to 100% of Medicare Part A and Part B claims data. Trella analyzes 1.25 billion claims annually and presents relevant insights to nearly 10,000 users so they can build higher-performing care networks, serve more patients, and reduce the cost of care. Trella is proud to be a Modern Healthcare top 25 Best Places to Work company for the second year in a row.

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