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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 ...

In recognition of PRMS' 35th Anniversary this November, Tonya Davies and PRMS managers share their reflections on their time with the company. Clients, Partners, and Friends – We are thrilled to celebrate 35 years of PRMS this November, and we’re grateful to each and every one of you for helping us reach this milestone in our company’s history. I have been at the helm of PRMS ...

This November 1st, PRMS celebrates 35 years of specializing in medical professional liability insurance for individual psychiatric healthcare providers and group practices. Thank you to all our clients, partners, colleagues, and friends for helping us reach this milestone! In the spirit of celebration, we are proud to make donations to organizations advancing our mission to su ...

In honor of Insurance Awareness Day this June 28, we want to ensure that everyone knows about all the benefits a medical professional liability policy through PRMS includes. In addition to insurance coverage, PRMS provides clients with our psychiatric risk management expertise through resources, online educational tools, one-on-one support, consultation, and more. PRMS strives ...

There’s no complete picture of health without mental health. But while public health organizations address the threat of COVID-19 and other disease threats, a passionate group of volunteer psychiatrists in consultation with the United Nations (UN) is focused on mental health issues across the globe. Over the past four years, PRMS is pleased to have supported the United Nations ...

As a part of PRMS’ ongoing commitment to behavioral health, we invited Head of PRMS, Tonya Davies, CPCU, ARe to reflect on her experiences since joining the company in October 2019 – when PRMS formally re-joined Transatlantic Reinsurance Company (TransRe), the long-time principal reinsurer for our insurance offering, The Psychiatrists’ Program. Tonya has spent the past 25 years ...

As a part of PRMS’ ongoing commitment to behavioral health, we invited Eunice Yuen, MD, PhD Child Psychiatry Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, CT, to be featured as our guest blogger this month and reflect on her experience and accomplishments as the PRMS Fellow in Child Psychiatry with the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry. As a child psychiatry fellow from ...

In these uncertain times, the issues around telepsychiatry are more confusing than ever. To provide some answers to these uncertainties, we created a Telepsychiatry On-Demand Tutorial and are sharing associated resources, which you can access via this link (access the webinar under “Presentation”). While there continue to be many unknowns, this on-demand tutorial covers changes ...

Contemplating a return to the office? As we begin to reemerge after enforced state-wide lockdowns and closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important for psychiatrists to be prepared as practices open back up and federal and state regulatory exceptions and waivers go away. And while we do not know what exactly will happen next, our Risk Managers have created a he ...

Tonya Davies CPCU, ARe, wasn’t even sure how to spell actuary, much less what it meant, when a guidance counselor suggested it as a career path for her after she aced a college calculus class.  But it turns out she had found her sweet spot. Davies has spent the past 25 years underwriting medical professional liability for hospitals, physicians, long-term care and other faciliti ...