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In February 2022, I became the new Director of Claims at PRMS. My primary role is to oversee the Claims Department and mentor our very talented team. Prior to joining PRMS at the end of August 2021, I worked as the Assistant Vice President (AVP) of Operations for The American Insurance Trust, an insurance company that insures psychologists and allied health professionals. Befor ...

This May in honor of Mental Health Awareness, PRMS is honored to support two national organizations advocating for mental health of children and youth in our communities, Child Mind Institute and The Trevor Project. As the provider of The Psychiatrists Program®, we are acutely aware of the importance of the mental health services that psychiatrists and other practitioners offe ...

As part of PRMS’ ongoing commitment to behavioral health, we invited Janet Baek, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, CA, to be featured as our guest blogger this month and share her goals as the new PRMS Fellow in Child Psychiatry with the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry. I applied to become a fellow with the Gro ...

On March 26, 2022 the PRMS team – including our brand mascot, the owl – moved up the street to a new ‘nest’ at 4300 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 700, Arlington, VA 22209. While bittersweet to leave the office we called ‘home’ for the last ten years, we are enjoying our brand new space – just hear what some of the members of our PRMS team have to say! Robert Clark, Litigation Special ...

As part of PRMS’ ongoing commitment to mental health, we are pleased to feature Chaden Noureddine, fourth-year medical student at Rutgers Medical School and the Medical Student Representative for the American Association for Psychiatric Administration and Leadership, as a guest blogger this month. Ms. Noureddine reflects on her experience working with AAPAL and her goals with t ...

*This piece was originally published December 2021 in issue 21 of the World Child & Adolescent Psychiatry journal and was edited for clarity in February 2022. As part of PRMS’ ongoing commitment to mental health, we are pleased to feature Mandar Jadhav, MD – child and adolescent psychiatrist, fellow representative of the Indo-American Psychiatric Association, and American P ...

  PRMS’ Psych-cess webinar series returns this year on Tuesday, April 12th, 6:30 – 7:30 pm ET on the topic of Emergency Psychiatry, featuring emergency psychiatrist Tony Thrasher, DO, DFAPA. Interested in the field of emergency psychiatry or just curious to learn more from our speaker? Join PRMS for a presentation and live question-and-answer session led by Dr. Thrasher, who wi ...

Recently, given world news and on top of the already challenging effects of COVID-19, mental health is more important than ever. To show our gratitude towards clients and our support, this March PRMS is proud to announce our first Refer a Colleague Double Donations month of 2022. For every referral PRMS receives between March 1 and 31, 2022, we will make a $100 donation – up $ ...

After 32 years with the company, Jean Bates, PRMS’ Director of Claims, is retiring. As she approaches her last few weeks with the company in March, she shares a reflection of her experiences over more than three decades, how working in claims and with the mental healthcare community has shaped her, and a few favorite memories along the way. Bates, an Alabama native, avid garden ...

National Wear Red Day, launched by the American Heart Association, is today, Friday, February 4th. Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in women, and Wear Red Day, raises support and awareness for women’s heart health. PRMS is proud to support this important cause and wear red to work on this day. Learn more by visiting https://www.goredforwomen.org/en/get-involv ...