{"id":1266,"date":"2013-05-20T18:51:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2013-05-20T18:51:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:51:40","slug":"joe-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/joe-edwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 61: President of the Maine Wellness Association Joe Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a061
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0May 11
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Joe Edwards
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Joseph Edwards holds a JD degree from Yale Law School and an BS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\u00a0 Stevoe and Edwards spoke about how his background in math, finance and law helped him along in his career.<\/p>\n

Edwards served as a Consultant of American Insurance Association and the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute. \u00a0He also served as a Director for the National Council on Compensation Insurance. Edwards has advised various constituencies in the workers’ compensation insurance industry and administers nine workers’ compensation self-insured trusts in the State of Maine.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods is joined in the studio by President of the Maine Wellness Association Joe Edwards.<\/p><\/div>\n

Under Governor McKernan, Edwards was the State Insurance Superintendent from 1987-1991. \u00a0Since holding this position, Edwards has specialized in a variety of self-insured workers’ compensation arrangements.\u00a0 In 2008, when a law passed encouraging national companies to register captive insurers in Maine, he saw possibilities and opportunities.\u00a0 Edwards approached Dr. David Howes, CEO of Martin’s Point, in 2009 to inquire about a partnership, with the idea to redesign the care Mainers receive and the payment system from the ground up.\u00a0 This was the start of the partnership with the Maine Wellness Association <\/a>and the birth of MaineSense.<\/p>\n

Edwards is now heading up Maine\u2019s first \u201ccaptive\u201d for health insurance, a member-owned company offering employer-based health care. Employees in the MaineSense program can choose from a number of plans, all featuring primary care doctors, with the ability to shop for nonemergency procedures. MaineSense officially began in August 2011.\u00a0 With its start it had 15 Maine employers on board, with another 15 to 20 interested.<\/p>\n

Edwards serves on the Board of Directors of the Maine Workers’ Compensation Coordinating Council. He serves as an Executive Director of the Greater Portland Five Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While in the Falmouth TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio, Edwards and Stevoe discussed how health insurance can be very difficult for the average person to understand and that was one of the reasons the Maine Wellness Association and MaineSense came to be. The three goals of the Maine Wellness Association is to provide members with better healthcare, an overall better experience and at a lower cost. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}