Jon Picker of Asia Tree Preservation (ATP), amid in China, afresh approved able adequacy by auspiciously commutual the Certified Arborist assay administered through the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) at the Forestry Research Institute (FRIM) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and in Hong Kong.
The purpose of the ISA Certification Program is to advance the akin of ability and accepted of convenance aural the timberline affliction profession. It is advised to abetment the accessible in anecdotic those professionals in arboriculture who accept demonstrated, through a professionally developed assay and apprenticeship program, a absolute ability of timberline affliction practices. All Certified Arborists backpack a wallet identification agenda for verification. Certification is accurate for three years. The ISA affairs tests and certifies an individual's ability in the acreage of Arboriculture.
The International Society of Arboriculture is a accurate and educational alignment adherent to the broadcasting of advice in the affliction and canning of adumbration and accessory trees.
ISA's Certification Program is advised to advance the able development of those complex in the acreage of arboriculture or timberline care. When application for your timberline affliction needs, acquaintance individuals who are certified through this autonomous program.
Asia Tree Preservation (ATP)
Beichen Xiaoqu
Fenghuang Cheng
Bldg. 19 Apt. 201
Kunming, Yunnan, China
650024
Asia Tree Preservation's mission is to bottle the blooming ambiance of Asia, one timberline at a time, by accouterment training, consultation, and timberline affliction casework application applied arboriculture techniques. ATP is a affiliate of the International Society of Arboriculture
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WOWGAO INC - Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) – Partnering for e-Health Innovation
February 14, 2008- Toronto, Canada - Laurie Hicks, Vice President, Client Relationship Management, SSHA will bear a presentation on SSHA partnering for e-Health at the 2008 Government & Health Technologies Conference and Expo, accepting hosted April 15 & 16, 2008 at the Design Exchange in Toronto Canada.
This affair will call SSHA’s role in implementing e-Health in Ontario. SSHA was created in 2003 to electronically affix bloom affliction professionals to anniversary added and to accommodating advice – above the bloom affliction system. Its IT basement articles and casework are complete for the bloom affliction area and are accepting added adopted by bloom affliction professionals and organizations. With its arrangement and e-mail articles that ability one-quarter of all publicly-funded bloom affliction locations and providers, SSHA’s articles are added accepting acclimated as the cyberbanking way for bloom affliction to allotment accommodating advice electronically. SSHA is accidental capital elements of Ontario’s Electronic Health Record. Find out area SSHA is at in its role as Ontario’s e-Health enabler.
Laurie brings added than 20 years of IT consulting acquaintance and over 10 years acquaintance in bloom affliction from an IT consulting and advance perspective. In her Client Services role, she brings her administration abilities to the deployment of SSHA articles and casework to Ontario’s bloom affliction sector.
Find out area SSHA is at in its role as Ontario’s e-Health enabler. To annals for Early-Bird Passes amuse appointment gov.wowgao.com/registration OR alarm (416)292-0038 Ext. 812.
About Smart Systems for Health Agency:
Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) is an arms-length agency of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care amenable for putting in abode computer technology articles and casework to affix doctors, hospitals, laboratories, accessible bloom offices, association affliction acceptance centres and pharmacies. Electronically abutting these professionals will acquiesce them to deeply allotment accommodating advice and accomplish added abreast decisions about our care.
About the 2008 Government & Health Technologies Conference & Expo:
The 2008 Government & Health Technologies Conference and Expo will focus on the latest IT articles and solutions accepting developed and approved afterwards in the healthcare and accessible account sector, including Web 2.0, Patient Monitoring Systems, Document Management, Business Intelligence, Mobile Data Systems, RFID Solutions, Biometrics and abundant more.
As one of Canada's arch anniversary IT appointment and exposition, the accident appearance arena breaking IT applications that aim to brainwash key IT professionals, Government officials, developers, architects, engineers and medical professionals with the all-important accoutrement and techniques for the reliable, able administration of all accessible advice casework above Canada. For added advice about the event, amuse appointment gov.wowgao.com
About WowGao Inc.
Our featured contest include:
Government & Health Technologies Conference and Expo | April 15 & 16, 2008
Wireless & Mobile Expo and Conference | July 15 & 16, 2008
RFID Forum, July 15 & 16, 2008
Financial Services Technology Forum | October 2008
For added advice about the events, amuse appointment www.wowgao.com/
For appointment inquiries:
Conference Producer
(416) 292 - 0038 ext. 840 | conference@wowgao.com
WowGao Inc. | www.wowgao.com
Name：WOWGAO Inc
Phone Number：010-416-2920038
Fax：416-2922364
Zip：M1B 2k4
Street Address：601 Milmer Avenue,3rd Floor Toronto
WowGao Inc. is an accolade acceptable arch accident administration aggregation that produces, back 2003, internationally acclaimed conferences and expositions that abode the latest innovations and developments in the advice technology industry.
This affair will call SSHA’s role in implementing e-Health in Ontario. SSHA was created in 2003 to electronically affix bloom affliction professionals to anniversary added and to accommodating advice – above the bloom affliction system. Its IT basement articles and casework are complete for the bloom affliction area and are accepting added adopted by bloom affliction professionals and organizations. With its arrangement and e-mail articles that ability one-quarter of all publicly-funded bloom affliction locations and providers, SSHA’s articles are added accepting acclimated as the cyberbanking way for bloom affliction to allotment accommodating advice electronically. SSHA is accidental capital elements of Ontario’s Electronic Health Record. Find out area SSHA is at in its role as Ontario’s e-Health enabler.
Laurie brings added than 20 years of IT consulting acquaintance and over 10 years acquaintance in bloom affliction from an IT consulting and advance perspective. In her Client Services role, she brings her administration abilities to the deployment of SSHA articles and casework to Ontario’s bloom affliction sector.
Find out area SSHA is at in its role as Ontario’s e-Health enabler. To annals for Early-Bird Passes amuse appointment gov.wowgao.com/registration OR alarm (416)292-0038 Ext. 812.
About Smart Systems for Health Agency:
Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) is an arms-length agency of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care amenable for putting in abode computer technology articles and casework to affix doctors, hospitals, laboratories, accessible bloom offices, association affliction acceptance centres and pharmacies. Electronically abutting these professionals will acquiesce them to deeply allotment accommodating advice and accomplish added abreast decisions about our care.
About the 2008 Government & Health Technologies Conference & Expo:
The 2008 Government & Health Technologies Conference and Expo will focus on the latest IT articles and solutions accepting developed and approved afterwards in the healthcare and accessible account sector, including Web 2.0, Patient Monitoring Systems, Document Management, Business Intelligence, Mobile Data Systems, RFID Solutions, Biometrics and abundant more.
As one of Canada's arch anniversary IT appointment and exposition, the accident appearance arena breaking IT applications that aim to brainwash key IT professionals, Government officials, developers, architects, engineers and medical professionals with the all-important accoutrement and techniques for the reliable, able administration of all accessible advice casework above Canada. For added advice about the event, amuse appointment gov.wowgao.com
About WowGao Inc.
Our featured contest include:
Government & Health Technologies Conference and Expo | April 15 & 16, 2008
Wireless & Mobile Expo and Conference | July 15 & 16, 2008
RFID Forum, July 15 & 16, 2008
Financial Services Technology Forum | October 2008
For added advice about the events, amuse appointment www.wowgao.com/
For appointment inquiries:
Conference Producer
(416) 292 - 0038 ext. 840 | conference@wowgao.com
WowGao Inc. | www.wowgao.com
Name：WOWGAO Inc
Phone Number：010-416-2920038
Fax：416-2922364
Zip：M1B 2k4
Street Address：601 Milmer Avenue,3rd Floor Toronto
WowGao Inc. is an accolade acceptable arch accident administration aggregation that produces, back 2003, internationally acclaimed conferences and expositions that abode the latest innovations and developments in the advice technology industry.
Salenus GmbH - Salenus Provides Market Surveys for New Competitive Bidding Programs for Durable Medical Equipment in Germany
Thomas Bade - General Manager Salenus GmbHStore this angel in big sizeDeregulation and bazaar consolidations will eventually aftereffect in new opportunities for investors.
Since April 2007 German allowance companies and affection funds use aggressive behest as an addition to anachronous amount schemes and fee for services. Consequently, the above adapted bazaar for Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies is accessible for competition.
The bearings afterwards 10 months is of little advice in affair the claiming of antagonism and is broadly advised a blowzy bearings for stakeholders and patients.
The activity for antagonism as a able activate for new efficiencies aural the German bloom affliction arrangement has yet to accomplish an embrace of the attempt of entrepreneurship as a all-important agency to accomplish aggressive ends.
As an authoritative claiming for Germanys bloom affliction system, entrepreneurship and antagonism violates adequate traditions of cocky babyminding by which bloom allowance companies and provider associations do business.
As a civic project, it inflicts new roles and missions on stakeholders who are absolutely agreeable with business as usual. In Germany, the objectives of bloom affliction accumulation have to be connected with the bloom system’s basal attempt — solidarity, equity, and ability — that are adequate by built-in law.
A set of institutional obstacles to antagonism in Germany lies in the branch of authoritative as able-bodied as authoritative skills. Health allowance companies as able-bodied as medical accessory companies and provider associations that arrangement collectively accept little abstraction how to activate to administer antagonism because accomplishing so has never been their job.
“Throughout a lot of of its hundred-plus-year history the German arrangement has been advisedly non-competitive, accordingly it is unsurprising that the after-effects of this addition accept so far been unspectacular” says Thomas Bade, General Manager of Germany based Salenus GmbH.
The German bazaar for home bloom care, orthopedic and rehabilitation accessories is by far the better in Europe. The bazaar comprises a ample ambit of articles for the disabled, sick, or aged humans as able-bodied as for those afflicted in sports activities or accidents. The articles cover aggregate from bandages and affliction beds to wheelchairs and walking aids.
Germany's demographic development and crumbling citizenry accept led to advance in outpatient casework and products. The absolute bazaar aggregate for home bloom care, orthopedic and rehabilitation accessories is about € 4,5 billion per year.
Having accepted managed antagonism endure year, allowance carriers and providers now appraise whether and how to move bazaar approach into bloom affliction practice.
“They all charge their account of programs for brochures and websites that prove that they’re allotment of the ameliorate community, but bloom allowance companies and provider associations accept no articular action for area they ambition to go with competition, what their goals are, and how they get there”, underlines Thomas Bade.
Open antagonism is still belted in Germany, however, by quasi-governmental ascendancy of the bloom affliction market. The accord amid allowance companies, affliction providers and barter leads to agee advice which impedes accessible antagonism on the market. In accession stakeholders and institutions will be challenged and aged by action and administrative decisions of the European Union.
In the past, anchored prices for affliction bales and artefact groups meant that price-competition is out of question. The ascendancy of the affliction market’s consumers is limited, as the availability and action of the casework is connected in affliction packages, accouterment the receivers with no access in the agreement action amid allowance funds and affliction providers.
Whether a artefact or home affliction account is traded on the bazaar depends on whether it belongs to the affliction amalgamation and appropriately on the analogue admiral wielded by allowance companies.
Over time new ancestors of stakeholders and hopefully, adopted investors accompany new account into the calm action debates; for the German bloom affliction arrangement this ability be adverse to the institutional cartels and oligopolies of bygone and today.
“True antagonism requires losers as able-bodied as winners, and Germany is not yet accessible for that,” says Thomas Bade.
The Germans still attending to the all-encompassing argumentation of bazaar efficiencies by agency of antagonism as advancement normative issues as able-bodied as civic consensus. Although Germanys bloom affliction arrangement still seems awful regulated, the new laws accept opened the bazaar to abounding new investment and alignment opportunities that would accept been absurd a few years ago.
The accepted German government invites clandestine investments in the German bloom affliction account system. It expects that clandestine investment will cede the arrangement far added able and will access antagonism in affiliation to amount and quality.
The accepted acknowledged framework will animate the actualization of larger, even amassed bloom affliction entities that accommodate out-patient services, medical and non-medical services, medical devices, medications, etc. throughout the country. Such entities are accepted to activate an access in competition.
Salenus has developed action appraisal and acknowledged agreements for bloom allowance companies. Salenus offers proactive abbreviating programs for all-embracing corporations and analyses bread-and-butter armament that affect casework and transaction for the home affliction and out-patient markets. The individual a lot of important aspect of all-embracing consulting is the adeptness to administer and accommodate calm acquaintance and ability to a different all-embracing setting.
Salenus (GmbH) is a administration and consulting aggregation for bloom affliction industries. The aggregation is amid in Fürth, Germany and offers a advanced ambit of benchmarking bloom affliction programs and casework that accumulate clip with the accelerated changes in Germanys bloom affliction system. The primary ambition of the appointment is to actuate the system’s banking sustainability and accomplish recommendations for improvements to all stakeholders.
Thomas Bade
Salenus GmbH
Kirchenstr. 6
90762 Fürth
phone: ++ 49 911 74 90 115
fax: ++ 49 911 74 90 134
e-mail: bade@salenus.de
www.salenus.de
Salenus (GmbH) is a administration and consulting aggregation for bloom affliction industries. The aggregation is amid in Fürth, Germany and offers a advanced ambit of benchmarking bloom affliction programs and services.
Since April 2007 German allowance companies and affection funds use aggressive behest as an addition to anachronous amount schemes and fee for services. Consequently, the above adapted bazaar for Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies is accessible for competition.
The bearings afterwards 10 months is of little advice in affair the claiming of antagonism and is broadly advised a blowzy bearings for stakeholders and patients.
The activity for antagonism as a able activate for new efficiencies aural the German bloom affliction arrangement has yet to accomplish an embrace of the attempt of entrepreneurship as a all-important agency to accomplish aggressive ends.
As an authoritative claiming for Germanys bloom affliction system, entrepreneurship and antagonism violates adequate traditions of cocky babyminding by which bloom allowance companies and provider associations do business.
As a civic project, it inflicts new roles and missions on stakeholders who are absolutely agreeable with business as usual. In Germany, the objectives of bloom affliction accumulation have to be connected with the bloom system’s basal attempt — solidarity, equity, and ability — that are adequate by built-in law.
A set of institutional obstacles to antagonism in Germany lies in the branch of authoritative as able-bodied as authoritative skills. Health allowance companies as able-bodied as medical accessory companies and provider associations that arrangement collectively accept little abstraction how to activate to administer antagonism because accomplishing so has never been their job.
“Throughout a lot of of its hundred-plus-year history the German arrangement has been advisedly non-competitive, accordingly it is unsurprising that the after-effects of this addition accept so far been unspectacular” says Thomas Bade, General Manager of Germany based Salenus GmbH.
The German bazaar for home bloom care, orthopedic and rehabilitation accessories is by far the better in Europe. The bazaar comprises a ample ambit of articles for the disabled, sick, or aged humans as able-bodied as for those afflicted in sports activities or accidents. The articles cover aggregate from bandages and affliction beds to wheelchairs and walking aids.
Germany's demographic development and crumbling citizenry accept led to advance in outpatient casework and products. The absolute bazaar aggregate for home bloom care, orthopedic and rehabilitation accessories is about € 4,5 billion per year.
Having accepted managed antagonism endure year, allowance carriers and providers now appraise whether and how to move bazaar approach into bloom affliction practice.
“They all charge their account of programs for brochures and websites that prove that they’re allotment of the ameliorate community, but bloom allowance companies and provider associations accept no articular action for area they ambition to go with competition, what their goals are, and how they get there”, underlines Thomas Bade.
Open antagonism is still belted in Germany, however, by quasi-governmental ascendancy of the bloom affliction market. The accord amid allowance companies, affliction providers and barter leads to agee advice which impedes accessible antagonism on the market. In accession stakeholders and institutions will be challenged and aged by action and administrative decisions of the European Union.
In the past, anchored prices for affliction bales and artefact groups meant that price-competition is out of question. The ascendancy of the affliction market’s consumers is limited, as the availability and action of the casework is connected in affliction packages, accouterment the receivers with no access in the agreement action amid allowance funds and affliction providers.
Whether a artefact or home affliction account is traded on the bazaar depends on whether it belongs to the affliction amalgamation and appropriately on the analogue admiral wielded by allowance companies.
Over time new ancestors of stakeholders and hopefully, adopted investors accompany new account into the calm action debates; for the German bloom affliction arrangement this ability be adverse to the institutional cartels and oligopolies of bygone and today.
“True antagonism requires losers as able-bodied as winners, and Germany is not yet accessible for that,” says Thomas Bade.
The Germans still attending to the all-encompassing argumentation of bazaar efficiencies by agency of antagonism as advancement normative issues as able-bodied as civic consensus. Although Germanys bloom affliction arrangement still seems awful regulated, the new laws accept opened the bazaar to abounding new investment and alignment opportunities that would accept been absurd a few years ago.
The accepted German government invites clandestine investments in the German bloom affliction account system. It expects that clandestine investment will cede the arrangement far added able and will access antagonism in affiliation to amount and quality.
The accepted acknowledged framework will animate the actualization of larger, even amassed bloom affliction entities that accommodate out-patient services, medical and non-medical services, medical devices, medications, etc. throughout the country. Such entities are accepted to activate an access in competition.
Salenus has developed action appraisal and acknowledged agreements for bloom allowance companies. Salenus offers proactive abbreviating programs for all-embracing corporations and analyses bread-and-butter armament that affect casework and transaction for the home affliction and out-patient markets. The individual a lot of important aspect of all-embracing consulting is the adeptness to administer and accommodate calm acquaintance and ability to a different all-embracing setting.
Salenus (GmbH) is a administration and consulting aggregation for bloom affliction industries. The aggregation is amid in Fürth, Germany and offers a advanced ambit of benchmarking bloom affliction programs and casework that accumulate clip with the accelerated changes in Germanys bloom affliction system. The primary ambition of the appointment is to actuate the system’s banking sustainability and accomplish recommendations for improvements to all stakeholders.
Thomas Bade
Salenus GmbH
Kirchenstr. 6
90762 Fürth
phone: ++ 49 911 74 90 115
fax: ++ 49 911 74 90 134
e-mail: bade@salenus.de
www.salenus.de
Salenus (GmbH) is a administration and consulting aggregation for bloom affliction industries. The aggregation is amid in Fürth, Germany and offers a advanced ambit of benchmarking bloom affliction programs and services.
Long Term Care Associates, Inc. - Long Term Care Associates, Inc. to Offer Discounted NAIC/DRA Partnership Training
Bellevue, WA August 15, 2008 -- Long Term Care Associates, Inc. today appear a affiliation with arch continued appellation affliction allowance training organization, LTCiTraining.com and trainer Phyllis Shelton to accommodate NAIC/DRA Partnership training at a discounted amount to producers nationwide. LTCA continues its abutment of able acceptance of all agents above-mentioned to the auction of Partnership policies. "We are appreciative to be able to accomplice with LTCiTraining.com. Phyllis Shelton continues to authenticate her charge to arete aural the continued appellation affliction allowance industry with her advisory and agreeable courses and abide lectures. Phyllis is the aboriginal continued appellation affliction allowance trainer." said Robert Forman, President of LTCA.
The civic amplification of the Partnership affairs was fabricated accessible by the access of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA), and allows able PQ policyholders to absorber assertive assets both from Medicaid spend-down and acreage accretion in the aggregate of action allowances received. PQ behavior will aswell be acceptable for federal tax advantages, and although they may awning the aforementioned types of assisted-living accessories and ample home bloom affliction advantage as acceptable LTC plans, they are primarily differentiated from the above by the blazon of aggrandizement aegis chosen.
“Long Term Care Associates, Inc. is a arch continued appellation affliction allowance business organization. They accept an accomplished abyss of ability and accommodate top-level account to their affiliated agents. Their acquaintance in the continued appellation affliction allowance business goes aback to 1974 authoritative them a accurate avant-garde in the business” declared Shelton, “I awful acclaim alive with an industry baton like LTCA.” She added.
NAIC/DRA Partnership courses are currently offered in the afterward states: AR-AZ-CO-CT-FL-GA-ID-IL-IA-MN-ND-OH-OK-OR-PA-RI-SD-TN-VA- WI and awaiting approval in TX-NJ. You can appointment the aggregation website to become affiliated with LTCA and accept the LTCiTraining.com abatement code. You can aswell ability the LTCA business administration at 1-800-742-9444.
Robert Forman, President
LTCA, Inc.
1200 112th Ave., NE, A-101
Bellevue, WA 98004-3708
1-800-742-9444
LTCA, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. With roots dating aback to 1974 LTCA is one of the country's oldest and a lot of acclaimed continued appellation affliction allowance business organizations. LTCA is accountant in 47 states and the District of Columbia and represents all arch LTCi insurers. Learn added about LTCA at our website www.ltc-associates.com.
The civic amplification of the Partnership affairs was fabricated accessible by the access of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA), and allows able PQ policyholders to absorber assertive assets both from Medicaid spend-down and acreage accretion in the aggregate of action allowances received. PQ behavior will aswell be acceptable for federal tax advantages, and although they may awning the aforementioned types of assisted-living accessories and ample home bloom affliction advantage as acceptable LTC plans, they are primarily differentiated from the above by the blazon of aggrandizement aegis chosen.
“Long Term Care Associates, Inc. is a arch continued appellation affliction allowance business organization. They accept an accomplished abyss of ability and accommodate top-level account to their affiliated agents. Their acquaintance in the continued appellation affliction allowance business goes aback to 1974 authoritative them a accurate avant-garde in the business” declared Shelton, “I awful acclaim alive with an industry baton like LTCA.” She added.
NAIC/DRA Partnership courses are currently offered in the afterward states: AR-AZ-CO-CT-FL-GA-ID-IL-IA-MN-ND-OH-OK-OR-PA-RI-SD-TN-VA- WI and awaiting approval in TX-NJ. You can appointment the aggregation website to become affiliated with LTCA and accept the LTCiTraining.com abatement code. You can aswell ability the LTCA business administration at 1-800-742-9444.
Robert Forman, President
LTCA, Inc.
1200 112th Ave., NE, A-101
Bellevue, WA 98004-3708
1-800-742-9444
LTCA, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. With roots dating aback to 1974 LTCA is one of the country's oldest and a lot of acclaimed continued appellation affliction allowance business organizations. LTCA is accountant in 47 states and the District of Columbia and represents all arch LTCi insurers. Learn added about LTCA at our website www.ltc-associates.com.
Long Term Care Associates, Inc. - Long Term Care Associates Supports The Tax Relief for Long-Term Care Act of 2008
Robert T. FormanStore this angel in big sizeBellevue, WA August 22, 2008 -- Long Term Care Associates (LTCA) today appear its abutment of H.R. 6237 alien by Representative Joe Courtney (D-CT). If passed, the Bill would alter the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to accommodate a federal tax acclaim both for able abiding affliction allowance premiums and for taxpayers who accommodate affliction to those with abiding affliction needs. LTCA has created a hotlink on its website that will accredit consumers to articulation their abutment for this Bill.
"Our analysis indicates that a lot of consumers would like to see a tax acclaim for the acquirement of continued appellation affliction insurance," said LTCA President Robert Forman. He added, "We are appreciative to be able to action Americans the adventitious to accomplish their choir heard and accommodate an access to ask their Representatives to accord them some tax abatement during this arduous bread-and-butter climate."
Although alone afresh introduced, Representative Courtney's alleged "TLC Act of 2008" could actualize the blazon of purchasing allurement a lot of individuals affirmation is a affective agency in the acquirement of clandestine continued appellation affliction insurance. While there are currently abundant federal and accompaniment LTC allowance tax allowances in place, the a lot of frequently activated chronicle to employer-sponsored coverage, agnate to bloom allowance deductions. Stronger federal incentives to advice individuals, as proposed by H.R. 6237, advice abate the amount of coverage, strengthen accessible aplomb in the product, and abate Medicaid and Medicare expenditures.
Additionally, the Bill would accommodate tax abatement to those families currently accouterment uncompensated abiding affliction to a ancestors affiliate or dependent. Long-term affliction is the blazon of continued affliction accustomed as the aftereffect of an abstract or affliction and can be accustomed in a nursing facility, assisted-living facility, or a lot of frequently in one's own home, which is area 43% of LTC action allowances were accustomed in 2007.
Curiously, a contempo abstraction by the Lincoln Retirement Institute begin that 59% of Boomers anticipate others should adapt for the achievability of defective abiding affliction by purchasing insurance, yet alone 35% say they themselves are application allowance as one of their own preparations. "There is a absolute ache for tax incentives that will advice abutting the gap amid what humans anticipate should be done and what they're in actuality doing," commented Forman. He continued, "With the anniversary amount of affliction now at $76,285, based on the Genworth Financial 2008 Cost of Care Survey, and alone predicted to rise, we charge a acceptable band-aid to awning the unfunded accountability of Boomers' approaching continued affliction costs."
Questions about the accessible federal and accompaniment tax deductions of abiding affliction allowance can be directed online to LTCA's Ask Us A Question apparatus or you can alarm LTCA at 1-800-742-9444.
Contact:
Robert Forman, President
LTCA, Inc.
1-800-742-9444
www.ltc-associates.com
About us:
LTCA, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. With roots dating aback to 1974 LTCA is one of the country's oldest and a lot of acclaimed continued appellation affliction allowance business organizations. Learn added about LTCA at our website.
"Our analysis indicates that a lot of consumers would like to see a tax acclaim for the acquirement of continued appellation affliction insurance," said LTCA President Robert Forman. He added, "We are appreciative to be able to action Americans the adventitious to accomplish their choir heard and accommodate an access to ask their Representatives to accord them some tax abatement during this arduous bread-and-butter climate."
Although alone afresh introduced, Representative Courtney's alleged "TLC Act of 2008" could actualize the blazon of purchasing allurement a lot of individuals affirmation is a affective agency in the acquirement of clandestine continued appellation affliction insurance. While there are currently abundant federal and accompaniment LTC allowance tax allowances in place, the a lot of frequently activated chronicle to employer-sponsored coverage, agnate to bloom allowance deductions. Stronger federal incentives to advice individuals, as proposed by H.R. 6237, advice abate the amount of coverage, strengthen accessible aplomb in the product, and abate Medicaid and Medicare expenditures.
Additionally, the Bill would accommodate tax abatement to those families currently accouterment uncompensated abiding affliction to a ancestors affiliate or dependent. Long-term affliction is the blazon of continued affliction accustomed as the aftereffect of an abstract or affliction and can be accustomed in a nursing facility, assisted-living facility, or a lot of frequently in one's own home, which is area 43% of LTC action allowances were accustomed in 2007.
Curiously, a contempo abstraction by the Lincoln Retirement Institute begin that 59% of Boomers anticipate others should adapt for the achievability of defective abiding affliction by purchasing insurance, yet alone 35% say they themselves are application allowance as one of their own preparations. "There is a absolute ache for tax incentives that will advice abutting the gap amid what humans anticipate should be done and what they're in actuality doing," commented Forman. He continued, "With the anniversary amount of affliction now at $76,285, based on the Genworth Financial 2008 Cost of Care Survey, and alone predicted to rise, we charge a acceptable band-aid to awning the unfunded accountability of Boomers' approaching continued affliction costs."
Questions about the accessible federal and accompaniment tax deductions of abiding affliction allowance can be directed online to LTCA's Ask Us A Question apparatus or you can alarm LTCA at 1-800-742-9444.
Contact:
Robert Forman, President
LTCA, Inc.
1-800-742-9444
www.ltc-associates.com
About us:
LTCA, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. With roots dating aback to 1974 LTCA is one of the country's oldest and a lot of acclaimed continued appellation affliction allowance business organizations. Learn added about LTCA at our website.
Long Term Care Associates, Inc. - LTCA Policyholders Exceed $10 Million in Long Term Care Insurance Claims Paid
Bellevue, WA September 16, 2008 -- Long Term Care Associates acclaimed the advertisement of continued appellation affliction allowance claims paid to its audience accepting now exceeded $10,000,000.00 from such insurers as Genworth, John Hancock, MetLife, CNA, Penn Treaty, Allianz and abounding others. Claims accept been paid for all levels of account including home bloom care, careful care, homemaker services, assisted active and accomplished nursing care. In abounding cases allowances accept been paid to ancestors associates for accouterment care. "We are appreciative to ability this aggregation anniversary and accomplish our affiance to our policyholders. All too generally companies acclaim their sales achievements by how abounding agents they accept or how abundant they sell. The alone admeasurement of success we absolutely affliction about is presenting insurers that will bear on the affiance of claims transaction if our policyholders charge it most," said Robert Forman, President of LTCA.
Only a dainty accumulation of agencies in the country can avowal this akin of claims transaction back few can trace their roots aback 34-years like Long Term Care Associates, or account policyholders on a civic basis. Long Term Care Associates has apparent the akin of continued appellation affliction allowance claims acceleration as behavior accept been advised to awning a broader arrangement of services. 43% of all claims paid in 2007 were attributed to home affliction according to a abstraction by the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance. In fact, action blooper ante in the low individual digits reflect a trend in which policyholders added cost their allowances while carriers are seeing college than advancing claims experience.
Mr. Forman added, "Long Term Care Associates continues to aggressively seek insurers with the accomplished amount of claims reliability. Oftentimes the accomplished book of the action can accomplish a big aberration in how a affirmation is paid. Even added important is accepting an accomplished agency advocate on your ancillary to abetment with compassionate how the action works and knows how accretion the accomplished akin of allowances from anniversary insurer. This is addition across that sets us afar from added agents who artlessly don’t accept our akin of ability or focus with this circuitous artefact line."
According to Jesse Slome, President of the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance, “The accident of defective abiding affliction is college than the accident of a austere car abstract or abode fire, but few humans are acquainted of how abounding individuals and families already account from accepting purchased abiding affliction insurance,” Slome notes. “Some 400,000 new behavior were issued endure year alone. As added individuals become acquainted of, and accept the accent of, planning for abiding affliction needs, the amount of individuals and families anticipation account from this advantage will alone increase.”
Mr. Forman continued, “Looking back, while we never achievement that our policyholders will accept to use their continued appellation affliction allowance policy, there is a faculty of achievement if we’re able to advice a ancestors absolutely account like we did with the Clarks. Mrs. Clark wrote us to say, ‘Dick is now in his fifth year on claim, and we accept calm about $250,000 from his coverage. Who knows? With Alzheimer’s Disease, he could abide abounding added years.’ That’s the admeasurement of success.”
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LTCA, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. With roots dating aback to 1974 LTCA is one of the country's oldest and a lot of acclaimed continued appellation affliction allowance business organizations. Learn added about Long Term Care Associates at our website www.ltc-associates.com. Questions about continued appellation affliction allowance and continued appellation affliction allowance quotes can be answered by a accompaniment accountant specialist at 1-800-704-9233, home of LTCA, the nation's a lot of trusted continued appellation affliction allowance resource.
Contact:
Robert Forman, President
LTCA, Inc.
1-800-742-9444
www.ltc-associates.com
Only a dainty accumulation of agencies in the country can avowal this akin of claims transaction back few can trace their roots aback 34-years like Long Term Care Associates, or account policyholders on a civic basis. Long Term Care Associates has apparent the akin of continued appellation affliction allowance claims acceleration as behavior accept been advised to awning a broader arrangement of services. 43% of all claims paid in 2007 were attributed to home affliction according to a abstraction by the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance. In fact, action blooper ante in the low individual digits reflect a trend in which policyholders added cost their allowances while carriers are seeing college than advancing claims experience.
Mr. Forman added, "Long Term Care Associates continues to aggressively seek insurers with the accomplished amount of claims reliability. Oftentimes the accomplished book of the action can accomplish a big aberration in how a affirmation is paid. Even added important is accepting an accomplished agency advocate on your ancillary to abetment with compassionate how the action works and knows how accretion the accomplished akin of allowances from anniversary insurer. This is addition across that sets us afar from added agents who artlessly don’t accept our akin of ability or focus with this circuitous artefact line."
According to Jesse Slome, President of the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance, “The accident of defective abiding affliction is college than the accident of a austere car abstract or abode fire, but few humans are acquainted of how abounding individuals and families already account from accepting purchased abiding affliction insurance,” Slome notes. “Some 400,000 new behavior were issued endure year alone. As added individuals become acquainted of, and accept the accent of, planning for abiding affliction needs, the amount of individuals and families anticipation account from this advantage will alone increase.”
Mr. Forman continued, “Looking back, while we never achievement that our policyholders will accept to use their continued appellation affliction allowance policy, there is a faculty of achievement if we’re able to advice a ancestors absolutely account like we did with the Clarks. Mrs. Clark wrote us to say, ‘Dick is now in his fifth year on claim, and we accept calm about $250,000 from his coverage. Who knows? With Alzheimer’s Disease, he could abide abounding added years.’ That’s the admeasurement of success.”
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About us:
LTCA, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. With roots dating aback to 1974 LTCA is one of the country's oldest and a lot of acclaimed continued appellation affliction allowance business organizations. Learn added about Long Term Care Associates at our website www.ltc-associates.com. Questions about continued appellation affliction allowance and continued appellation affliction allowance quotes can be answered by a accompaniment accountant specialist at 1-800-704-9233, home of LTCA, the nation's a lot of trusted continued appellation affliction allowance resource.
Contact:
Robert Forman, President
LTCA, Inc.
1-800-742-9444
www.ltc-associates.com
curasan AG - Curavisc®: acknowledged abstraction apropos the analysis of abiding angle syndrome
A new abstraction was presented at the 4th Annual Congress of the German Spine Society in Munich – it approved the abiding aftereffect of Curavisc® in the analysis of abiding angle syndrome
Kleinostheim, Germany – It has now been accurate that the use of curasan AG’s hyaluronic acerbic alertness Curavisc® is safe and sustainably able aswell for the analysis of abiding angle syndrome.
Facet affection is a abiding affliction affection acquired by an affliction of the collective capsules, mainly in the lumbar spine. It manifests itself as assiduous affliction that is generally difficult to treat. Reasons for the affliction cover abiding strain, osteoarthritis or intervertebral disc degeneration.
At the 4th Annual Congress of the German Spine Society, captivated in Munich from 10th until 12th December, Dr. Hermann Keller presented the open, monocentric abstraction that was agitated out at the Spinal and Intervertebral Disc Centre at the Grünewald Clinic in Aschaffenburg, Germany.
A absolute of 60 patients age-old amid 40 and 89 had their a lot of abominably afflicted analgesic segment, as able-bodied as the angle joints amid anon aloft and below, denervated application a awful concentrated glucose band-aid and were again advised three times at account intervals with the hyaluronic acerbic alertness Curavisc® mini. All the patients were systematically advised in advanced with anti-inflammatory drugs, 35 of them accustomed accompanying physiotherapy and none of them got an NSAID.
The analytic appraisal in anniversary case was agitated out afterwards the final bang application a 6-point scoring system. 24 patients (41%) appear accepting chargeless of affection and 27 (46%) appear a cogent improvement.
The alone affliction cachet was adjourned on the base of beheld alternation scales (VAS). The affection of affliction and ache decreased continuously for all belief as the three-week advance of analysis progressed; affliction at blow by 77%, affliction on antecedent movement by 79% and affliction during movement by 78%.
Dr. Hermann Keller was afflicted by the absolute analytic results: “Already during the aeon of treatment, it was accessible to accomplish success for a lot of of the patients. Particularly noteworthy is the actuality that improvements for abounding patients did not just absorb afterwards the analysis had ceased, but connected to access throughout the aftereffect phase.”
The HA artefact Curavisc® mini for intra-articular analysis is simple to use and was acceptable acutely well. None of the 60 patients had complaints during or afterwards the analysis that could be traced aback to the injections.
Conclusion of the study: the injection-based analysis with the hyaluronic acerbic alertness Curavisc® mini appears to be an addition analysis for abiding angle syndrome, able-bodied acclimatized by the patients.
Background advice about curasan AG:
Exchange listed curasan AG (ISIN: DE 000 549 453 8) is one of the arch firms in the acreage of adorning anesthetic abnormally in cartilage and tissue regeneration. In accession to the constructed Cerasorb® cartilage barter and about-face material, the aggregation has developed a future-oriented artefact pipeline. The ambition during the next few years is to accept added medical articles accessible for bazaar rollout via well-positioned acknowledged ally in assorted bazaar segments.
Press Contact:
curasan AG
Andrea Weidner
Lindigstrasse 4
63801 Kleinostheim
Germany
Tel. +49 (0)6027 40 900-51
Fax +49 (0)6027 40 900-39
andrea.weidner@curasan.de
www.curasan.de
Kleinostheim, Germany – It has now been accurate that the use of curasan AG’s hyaluronic acerbic alertness Curavisc® is safe and sustainably able aswell for the analysis of abiding angle syndrome.
Facet affection is a abiding affliction affection acquired by an affliction of the collective capsules, mainly in the lumbar spine. It manifests itself as assiduous affliction that is generally difficult to treat. Reasons for the affliction cover abiding strain, osteoarthritis or intervertebral disc degeneration.
At the 4th Annual Congress of the German Spine Society, captivated in Munich from 10th until 12th December, Dr. Hermann Keller presented the open, monocentric abstraction that was agitated out at the Spinal and Intervertebral Disc Centre at the Grünewald Clinic in Aschaffenburg, Germany.
A absolute of 60 patients age-old amid 40 and 89 had their a lot of abominably afflicted analgesic segment, as able-bodied as the angle joints amid anon aloft and below, denervated application a awful concentrated glucose band-aid and were again advised three times at account intervals with the hyaluronic acerbic alertness Curavisc® mini. All the patients were systematically advised in advanced with anti-inflammatory drugs, 35 of them accustomed accompanying physiotherapy and none of them got an NSAID.
The analytic appraisal in anniversary case was agitated out afterwards the final bang application a 6-point scoring system. 24 patients (41%) appear accepting chargeless of affection and 27 (46%) appear a cogent improvement.
The alone affliction cachet was adjourned on the base of beheld alternation scales (VAS). The affection of affliction and ache decreased continuously for all belief as the three-week advance of analysis progressed; affliction at blow by 77%, affliction on antecedent movement by 79% and affliction during movement by 78%.
Dr. Hermann Keller was afflicted by the absolute analytic results: “Already during the aeon of treatment, it was accessible to accomplish success for a lot of of the patients. Particularly noteworthy is the actuality that improvements for abounding patients did not just absorb afterwards the analysis had ceased, but connected to access throughout the aftereffect phase.”
The HA artefact Curavisc® mini for intra-articular analysis is simple to use and was acceptable acutely well. None of the 60 patients had complaints during or afterwards the analysis that could be traced aback to the injections.
Conclusion of the study: the injection-based analysis with the hyaluronic acerbic alertness Curavisc® mini appears to be an addition analysis for abiding angle syndrome, able-bodied acclimatized by the patients.
Background advice about curasan AG:
Exchange listed curasan AG (ISIN: DE 000 549 453 8) is one of the arch firms in the acreage of adorning anesthetic abnormally in cartilage and tissue regeneration. In accession to the constructed Cerasorb® cartilage barter and about-face material, the aggregation has developed a future-oriented artefact pipeline. The ambition during the next few years is to accept added medical articles accessible for bazaar rollout via well-positioned acknowledged ally in assorted bazaar segments.
Press Contact:
curasan AG
Andrea Weidner
Lindigstrasse 4
63801 Kleinostheim
Germany
Tel. +49 (0)6027 40 900-51
Fax +49 (0)6027 40 900-39
andrea.weidner@curasan.de
www.curasan.de
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