ASME QME-1

Audax Private Debt Provides Financing to Support Aquiline Capital Partners’ Launch of MDpanel

Retrieved on: 
星期四, 十月 12, 2023
General Health, Finance, Banking, Health, Professional Services, Partnership, Internal medicine, CME, CMLS, Elective surgery, Pain management, Psychiatry, Chiropractic, ASME QME-1, Physician, Consumer, Nursing

Audax Private Debt (“Audax”) announced that, as Administrative Agent and Sole Lead Arranger, it provided a unitranche credit facility to support the formation of MDpanel (the “Company”) by Aquiline Capital Partners, a New York-based private investment firm.

Key Points: 
  • Audax Private Debt (“Audax”) announced that, as Administrative Agent and Sole Lead Arranger, it provided a unitranche credit facility to support the formation of MDpanel (the “Company”) by Aquiline Capital Partners, a New York-based private investment firm.
  • MDpanel is a new platform dedicated to the efficient delivery of medical opinions as part of the workers’ compensation insurance claims process.
  • “We’re excited to partner with Aquiline Capital Partners as they launch this new platform, bringing together two high-caliber, complimentary businesses that are poised to continue growing.”
    “We are thrilled to have Audax’ support for this investment.
  • The team worked closely alongside us throughout the process to provide flexible solutions that met our investment needs,” said Benedict Baerst, Partner at Aquiline Capital Partners.

Aquiline Capital Partners Launches MDpanel, a New Platform Committed to the Efficient Delivery of Medical Opinions in the Insurance Claims Process, and Appoints Jason Erdell as CEO

Retrieved on: 
星期二, 十月 10, 2023
Investment, Carl Bailey Company Building, Change Healthcare, Physician, Internal medicine, CME, CMLS, LOS, Elective surgery, Pain management, QME, Psychiatry, Chiropractic, ASME QME-1, Growth, Ropes & Gray, Erdel, MedAssets, Pharmaceutical industry, Nursing, Aquiline

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aquiline Capital Partners LLC ("Aquiline"), a private investment firm based in New York and London, today announced the formation of MDpanel, a new platform dedicated to the efficient delivery of medical opinions as part of the workers' compensation insurance claims process.

Key Points: 
  • MDpanel welcomes California Medical Legal Specialists and California Medical Evaluators into one of the nation's most innovative medical legal opinion networks.
  • LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aquiline Capital Partners LLC ("Aquiline"), a private investment firm based in New York and London, today announced the formation of MDpanel, a new platform dedicated to the efficient delivery of medical opinions as part of the workers' compensation insurance claims process.
  • Jason Erdell has been appointed CEO of MDpanel.
  • "I'm looking forward to building MDpanel into the platform through which world-class medical opinions reach those in need," said Jason Erdell, CEO of MDpanel.

CWCI Finds Sharp Increase in California Workers’ Comp Med-Legal Costs Under New Fee Schedule

Retrieved on: 
星期二, 七月 5, 2022
Legal, Insurance, Hospitals, Professional Services, Public Policy, Government, Health Insurance, Practice Management, State, Local, General Health, Health, Review, ASME QME-1, Impact, Q&A, Internal medicine, Division, AME, Physician, New, DWC, Research, Health insurance, Online shopping, Pacific Ocean

In April 2021, the DWC implemented a new fee schedule that for the first time since 2006, changed the payment formulas for med-legal evaluations and reports.

Key Points: 
  • In April 2021, the DWC implemented a new fee schedule that for the first time since 2006, changed the payment formulas for med-legal evaluations and reports.
  • The old MLFS had provided varying flat fee payments for basic and complex comprehensive (ML102 and ML103) evaluations, and time-based payments for evaluations involving extraordinary circumstances (ML104).
  • The new MLFS also continued to allow additional fees for evaluations by an Agreed Medical Evaluator (AME) or those involving an interpreter, and expanded fee multipliers to certain medical specialists.
  • One goal of the new fee structure was to attract and retain more Qualified Medical Evaluators (QMEs).