IRVINE, CALIF. (July 8, 2008) — Suzanne M. Guyan has joined CompPartners, a workers’ compensation, disability, and group health managed care organization, as director of product development.

Guyan has a diverse and comprehensive background in workers’ compensation and employee benefits.  She started out with Liberty Mutual as a multi-line claims examiner over workers’ compensation, property and automobile claims.  Most recently, she served as director for membership for the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI).

For more than 13 years, Guyan worked in employee benefits for Costco Wholesale.  She joined the company in 1993 as workers’ compensation manager and was promoted to director of workers’ compensation and disability programs.  Later, as director of employee benefits, she assumed a legislative affairs role, advocating on behalf of Costco for workers’ compensation reform in several states, including California, Illinois and Texas.

“Her experience on both the employer and carrier sides gives Suzanne tremendous insight into what payers need and how to design solutions for them,” said Bruce Carlin, CompPartners’ CEO.

Guyan holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana State University.  She is the past chair of the California Coalition of Workers’ Compensation and a former board member of both the Association Washington Business and the Washington Self Insured Association.  She is also the former chapter president of Disability Management Employers Coalition in Seattle, Wash. and co-chaired the California Workers Compensation Forum Conference in both 2005 and 2006.

About CompPartners
Established in 1998, CompPartners is a managed care organization serving State funds, insurance carriers, self-insured employers, third-party administrators, and other workers’ compensation payers in California.  Services encompass a medical network, physician peer review, utilization review, medical bill review, Medicare Set-Aside analyses, medical and disability case management using evidence-based guidelines, and employee enrollment services. CompPartners was the first organization to be nationally accredited by URAC as an external review organization for workers’ compensation and was one of California’s first Health Care Organizations to be certified and one of the first to launch a Medical Provider Network. CompPartners can be reached at 949-253-3111 or www.comppartners.com.

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