IRVINE, CALIF. (Nov. 18, 2008) — CompPartners, a workers’ compensation managed care organization, has named Kimberly Wiswell as product director, Medicare Set-Asides and Jake Reason as director of CompProjections, its national Medicare Set-Aside division.  CompProjections offers Medicare Set-Aside Analyses (MSAs) and other medical cost projection services to determine appropriate future medical costs over a claimant’s lifetime. 

Most recently, Wiswell ran her own consulting company working with workers’ compensation medical service providers and conducting seminars on Medicare Set-Asides and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).  Her managed care workers’ compensation career includes high-level operational positions with such companies as Fair, Isaac and Company and First Health Priority Services. A member of the National Association of Medicare Set-Aside Professionals, Wiswell is a graduate of California State University in Long Beach, Ca. and of Western State University of Law in Fullerton, Ca.

Reason served as director of technical operations for Coventry Priority Services prior to joining CompPartners.  He also has experience as a vocational rehabilitation counselor and senior claims examiner for a major national health insurance company and is a licensed life and health insurance agent in the State of California. Reason holds a B.S. degree in Business Management from the Graziadio School of Business and Management of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Ca., where he graduated Cum Laude.

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.  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 certified Health Care Organizations, and one of the first to launch a Medical Provider Network. Services encompass a medical network, physician peer review, utilization review, medical bill review medical and disability case management using evidence-based guidelines, and employee enrollment services.  CompPartners can be reached at 949-253-3111 or www.comppartners.com.

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