2012 News and Press Releases

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Examination Management Services, Inc. (EMSI), the market leader in medical information, risk management and investigative services, announces it will be providing in-home health assessments, data collection and medical record retrieval services for Battelle Memorial Institute in support of a five-year observational study of childhood obesity in the US that began in 2010.

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ICS Merrill's Michael Ferrin was interviewed for Men of Vision: Building Big Agencies, the cover story for PI Magazine's February 2012 issue.

"Michael Ferrin, Vice President for Program Management, told PI Magazine that the company has 400 employee investigators, covering all 50 states, plus 224 small agency vendors. He said ICS Merrill also has international investigators in 80 countries who work on a per-case basis. In all, the company relies on over 2,000 investigators."

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EMSI’s Kim Anderson was called upon to comment on the use of swab tests by life carriers in this article.
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Oral swab testing tells life insurance companies how healthy you are To find out if you're as healthy as you say you are on your life insurance application, don't be surprised if underwriters go straight to the source: your mouth. Read full article...

Through the addition of two of EMSI’s eINFORM Platform services, Legal & General America (the new brand identity for Banner Life Insurance Company) can now offer its life insurance distribution channel the convenience of having the medical history (Part II) form for Banner applications collected electronically, either via phone or onsite at the time of the exam utilizing a laptop.
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