TPA in Medical News

MassMutual Retirement Services Hires New TPA Relationship Manager for Midwest Region

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- MassMutual's Retirement Services Division is pleased to announce that Tony Carucci has joined its TPA service team as a relationship manager for the Midwest region. His role is to assist advisors with plan reviews, investment change processing, product a...

Study shows ultrasound and tPA effective for stroke

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. An experimental therapy using tiny bubbles activated by transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasound combined with the clot busting drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is more effective than tPA alone in treating patients suffering from ischemic stroke, according to new research pr...

MassMutual Retirement Services Appoints Three New TPA Relationship Managers

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- MassMutual's Retirement Services Division has added three new relationship managers to support its growing business with third-party administrators (TPA). The new TPA relationship managers are focused on assisting advisors with plan reviews, investment c...

The Quantum Group Announces State Approval of TPA Application for Subsidiary Company Renaissance Administrative Solutions, Inc.

WELLINGTON, Fla., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Quantum Group, Inc. (NYSE Alternext US: QGP) ( www.QuantumMD.com ), a solutions provider for the healthcare industry, announced today that Quantum subsidiary Renaissance Administrative Solutions, Inc. (RASI) has received approval and a Certif...

The Quantum Group Files TPA Application

WELLINGTON, Fla., July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Quantum Group (Amex: QGP ) (http://www.QuantumMD.com ) has announced that it has filed an application to become a third party administrator (TPA) with the state of Florida. The Company has incorporated a subsidiary company, Renaissance ...

Olympus Managed Health Care Receives Third Party Administrative License in State of Florida

...ons outside of the United States. By securing the tpa license in Florida, Olympus Managed Health Care wi.... "We are very excited about receiving the tpa license in Florida," said Steven W. Jacobson, pres...ervices and expertise into the United States. The tpa license is an important step toward achieving that...

Claimsnet Announces Claims Processing Agreement With New Third Party Administrator

...d today that a well established Third Party Administrator (TPA) based in southeast Texas has elected to use Claimsnet's system and services. This tpa is a leading third party administrator and benefits consultant. Their first priority is to determine why a client has or needs an employee benefit pl...

CorVel Announces Revenues and Earnings

.... During the March quarter, CorVel completed the acquisition of a third party administrator (TPA) in New York, the Company's third acquisition in its tpa expansion effort. Software development efforts have been focused on the incorporation of artificial intelligence capabilities and workflow management...

Skyscape's Mobile Healthcare Professional Community Crosses the 1 Million Mark

...mple the Glasgow Coma Scale in pediatrics or adults in the setting of traumatic brain injuries and gives up to date guidelines as far as administering tpa for ischemic stroke." Not surprisingly, Dr Saleh will be getting more Skyscape resources. He says, "These programs are great, and I pla...

Window for Stroke Treatment Opens Wider

...linical trials in which patients were treated with tpa between three and four-and-a-half hours, we were able to demonstrate that treatment with tpa is beneficial even if it is started between three ...omptly issued a recommendation that the window for tpa therapy be opened that much wider; that advisory a...

Videoconferencing can increase patient access to stroke specialists

...ock local, on-site acute stroke expertise is insufficient. Increasing Medicare reimbursement for telestroke assessment, diagnosis and approval to use tpa to reflect the increased upfront costs of implementation. Developing a mechanism for uniform, streamlined credentialing for telestroke providers and ...

Women More Likely to Experience Non-Traditional Stroke Symptoms

...oke signs cause a delay in treatment, the researcher says. "The only treatment that is currently FDA approved in the United States for stroke is tpa (tissue plasminogen activator), or what we call a clot-busting drug," Lisabeth says. "To administer tPA, people with stroke have to get to the hospita...

Cardium Reports on Recent Highlights, Financial Results and 2009 Outlook

...o announce results of the RAPID MI-ICE clinical study in 2009. Co-sponsorship of the Intravascular Cooling in the Treatment of Stroke - Longer tpa window (ICTuS-L) study, which is a prospective, randomized, controlled, multi-center study, sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Disord...

Stroke treated significantly faster and just as safely by medical residents

...e of tPA. The course taught them how to appropriately choose candidates for tpa and how to administer it. After residents were given the authority to admin...eurology residents at Barnes-Jewish Hospital continue to regularly train in tpa usage and to have the authority to administer tPA. Given an academic me...

Women Less Apt to Get Clot-Buster, Study Finds

...d 2008. "Women were 30 percent less likely to have tpa compared to men," he said. He analyzed data on ...e symptoms -- the crucial time window within which tpa must be given -- men were still more likely to be ...ubgroup, "women were 19 percent less likely to get tpa than the men," Bhatt said. More research is nee...

New Advances May Treat Stroke Faster, Better

...PA), in use since 1996. While the time window for tpa usefulness is within three hours of the onset of s...to help reopen the vessels. "The microspheres help tpa continue its mechanical action," the researcher ex...ing 35 patients treated with the microspheres plus tpa or...

Few Stroke Patients Get Clot-Busting Drug

... tpa can save lives and reduce disability, but less tha...he found. Across the United States, the use of tpa occurs in no more than 3 percent of all stroke pa...udy expressed disappointment at the low percent of tpa usage. "It's still unfortunate that the number of...

Women less likely to receive critical care after a stroke, MSU researchers find

...between 1995 and March 2008 that presented data on tpa treatment rates. Eighteen studies provided data on...tions to determine which patients are eligible for tpa treatment. Gender differences in stroke care is... Department of Epidemiology who also worked on the tpa study. Reeves and fellow MSU researchers are publi...

Fast Arrival at Hospital After Stroke Pays Off

... 100 patients treated, 30 benefit and three are harmed," he said. Use of tpa is the only approved treatment for the 80 percent or more of strokes caused... is the stroke association's program aimed at increasing appropriate use of tpa therapy for ischemic strokes, those caused by blood clots. Saver and his...

Gender Disparities Persist in Treatment of Stroke

...rall, the absolute differences between genders were small, but more troubling and clinically relevant gaps existed in how many women were treated with tpa (clot-busting drug) and in how well they were treated for high cholesterol. Women were also 16 percent less likely to be sent home after a stroke, ...

Mesh-like network of arteries adjusts to restore blood flow to stroke-injured brain

...he neuroscience department at UC San Diego's School of Medicine co-authored the paper. Lyden, whose contributions to a 1995 study proved that the drug tpa can reverse the course of stroke when administered promptly, also directs the UC San Diego Stroke Center. The Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Meta...

Blocking toxic effects could make clot-buster safer

... introduction of the life-saving clot-busting drug tpa more than a decade ago, evidence has been accumulating that tpa (tissue-type plasminogen activator) can be a doubl... the only FDA-approved treatment for acute stroke, tpa can also contribute to inflammation and brain cell...

The Quantum Group CEO Offers Year in Review

...and office equipment purchases." Mr. Guillama recited Company achievements in the year 2008 which included, among others, state approval of the tpa (Third Party Administrator) Application for subsidiary company, Renaissance Administrative Solutions (RASI), continued growth of the patient base, exp...

Bat Saliva-Based Stroke Drug Disappoints in Trial

...re caused by blockage of a blood vessel. Most strokes are ischemic strokes; tpa is given by intravenous injection and works quickly to dissolve clots. "But tpa must be given within three hours of a stroke, so only a small percentage of...

Clot Dissolver Doesn't Boost Survival in Cardiac Arrest Patients

...aid. "Often, what little effect you might produce is not enough to alter the outcome." More information To learn more about the why and how of tpa use, visit the American Heart Association . SOURCES: Bernd Böttiger, M.D., professor and head, Department of Anesthesi...

Robotic Device Could Help Stroke Patients

... diagnose whether a stroke patient is eligible to receive the drug known as tpa that dissolves blood clots in the brain. According to the study authors,...prove by 86 percent the number of stroke patients who could be treated with tpa within the crucial three-hour window after a stroke. More information ...

Portable CT increases chance of stroke survival and recovery

...schemic stroke, occurs when a blood clot blocks a blood vessel in the brain. Such strokes can be treated with thrombolytic therapy using a drug called tpa that dissolves the blockage. However, the window of opportunity to safely administer the medication is generally considered to be just three hours. Al...

Ultrasound Can Help Break Up DVTs

...lease. In this study, Kasirajan and colleagues treated 37 patients (16 with DVT and 21 with in situ arterial thrombosis) with the clot-busting drug tpa (tissue plasminogen activator), and also used ultrasound to loosen proteins in the blood clots and speed delivery of the drugs into the clots. The ...

Ultrasound waves aid in rapid treatment of DVT

...amage and also prevent the possibility of pulmonary embolism," says Kasirajan. Researchers treated 37 patients with the clot-dissolving drug called tpa (tissue plasminogen activator), while using ultrasound to loosen the proteins in their blood clots and send the drug into the clots faster. Of the ...

WVU study demonstrates efficacy of CT perfusion in diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke

... between emergency room neurological exam and CT scan was 35 minutes. Under National Institutes of Health guidelines, hospitals should administer tpa (a clot-busting, or thrombolytic, drug) to patients within a three-hour window of stroke onset. After six hours, the medicine is considered too risky,...

West VA University Study Calls for New Method of Stroke Diagnosis

...g tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). However, for tpa to be most effective, the patient must receive an ...demonstrates that there may be a larger window for tpa administration than previously thought, the issue remains that tpa can be dangerous when given to patients for whom i...

Unusual case of a woman who suffered stroke during sex

...out. In strokes caused by clots, a drug called tpa can dissolve the clot and restore blood flow before brain cells are irreversibly damaged. tpa is safe and effective if given intravenously withi...hours after her stroke. It was too late to receive tpa given intravenously. But there was a chance the cl...

Later Use of Clot-Buster After Stroke Possible: Study

... tpa can be safely given beyond the current 3-hour limi...searchers who showed that the clot-dissolving drug tpa could safely be used within three hours after a st...authorities after doubts arose about the safety of tpa in stroke treatment, which was approved in 1996 by...

Blood Pressure Treatment Can Be Used Against Stroke

...ews) -- It's safe to give the clot-dissolving drug tpa to people with very high blood pressure after they...ort that perhaps 10 percent of people eligible for tpa treatment after a stroke don't get it because of f...t blocks a brain artery -- and who got intravenous tpa within three hours, the recommended time frame. ...

Broadspire Announces Key Leadership Appointments

...roadspire in 2007. He has served in a variety of roles in the insurance and tpa industry for 28 years and has extensive knowledge and experience in tpa claim and medical operations, account management, product development, fina...

Cancer Drug Gleevec Could Fight Stroke

...ves the activity of tPA. Doctors typically give tpa in the hours after an ischemic stroke, which occur... About 80 percent of all strokes are ischemic, and tpa is given to dissolve the clots. But there's a ...ska and in Michigan showed for the first time that tpa increases the risk of bleeding by acting on PDGF-C...

Leukemia drug could save lives of stroke patients

... (New York, June 22). The drug tpa is the most effective treatment currently availabl...hours following the onset of symptoms. After that, tpa may cause dangerous bleeding in the brain. However...hool show that these problems might be overcome if tpa is combined with the leukemia drug, imatinib (Glee...

Clot-Busting Treatment Improves Bleeding Stroke Outcomes

... Low dose tpa dissolved masses 2 to 3 times faster, dramatically... High doses (80 milligrams to 100 milligrams) of tpa have proven effective at breaking up clots in cond... ICH patients. Previous studies showed that giving tpa to ICH patients hadn't significantly increased ble...

Researchers fine-tune clot-busting treatment for bleeding in brain

...emorrhage. However, since high-dose (80 to 100 mg) tpa is effective at breaking up clots in other conditi...t ICH. The previous studies showed that giving tpa to ICH patients hadn't significantly increased ble... Using the same catheter as a conduit for flooding tpa directly onto the clot, the researchers put each p...

INETICO, Inc. Creates Data Interface with TPABenefits, Inc. Offering a Powerful Care and Claims Management Solution

...hese services can be used independently, when combined, they provide even greater savings and an enhanced clinical outcome for the patient. Payers and tpa users of the TPABenefits Web Portal can view integrated up-to-date case management notes from the INETICO system, while Plan Members and Providers can...