CompPartners and CompWest Launch a Medical Provider Network - MPN - For Workers' Compensation Clients In California.IRVINE, Calif. -- CompWest Insurance Company, a workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. insurance carrier, has selected CompPartners, Inc. to be its network and health care management partner in a Medical Provider Network (MPN MPN Master Promissory Note MPN Most Probable Number MPN Medical Provider Network MPN Mobil Producing Nigeria MPN Manufacturer's Part Number MPN Military Personnel, Navy MPN Mobile Private Network MPN Managed Private Network MPN Mode Partition Noise ) for its workers' compensation customers in California. The MPN has 28,000 physicians, 335 hospitals, and 6,654 ancillary facilities located throughout the state. Designed to stem the rising medical costs in workers compensation, the MPN is a recent provision of workers' compensation reform in California that enables employers to direct injured employees to providers in a managed care network. Significant cost savings have been attributed to similar programs in other states. CompPartners will provide a full line of managed care services, including its medical network, medical case management, utilization review u·til·i·za·tion review n. A process for monitoring the use, delivery, and cost-effectiveness of services, especially those provided by medical professionals. , physician peer review and bill review services to CompWest's customers. About CompWest CompWest Insurance Company was created in Sept. 2004 in response to the shortage of workers' compensation insurance carriers in California. Headquartered in San Francisco, CompWest serves mid-market employers throughout the state through selected partner brokers. For more information, visit http://www.compwestinsurance.com. About CompPartners Based in Irvine, Calif. and founded in 1998, CompPartners is also California's largest HCO HCO Harvard College Observatory HCO Hubbard Communications Office (Scientology) HCO Hearing Carry-Over HCO Health Care Organization HCO Helicopter Control Officer HCO Human Capital Office , providing workers' compensation health care services to insurers, third party administrators, and employers. In addition to the HCO and MPN product, CompPartners also offers a national Physician Peer Review program for workers' compensation and auto-liability. CompPartners was the first organization to be nationally accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. by URAC URAC Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (health care accreditation & certification) URAC University Recreation & Aquatic Centre Ltd (Australia) URAC Union Regional de Apoyo Campesino as an external review organization for workers' compensation. For more information, visit http://www.comppartners.com. |
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