Health Risk Partners: Services for Medicare and Medicaid Plans

For Immediate release


CONTACT:
Marc L. Wise
Health Risk Partners
(804) 201-4151
(804) 254-4166
marc.wise@healthriskpartners.com
http://www.healthriskpartners.com

JAMIE WELLS AND KWAME APPIAH-YEBOAH JOIN HEALTH RISK PARTNERS

RICHMOND, VA, May 17, 2010 -- Health Risk Partners announces the addition of Jamie Wells and Kwame Appiah-Yeboah to the HRP team.

Health Risk Partners is pleased to announce the addition of Jamie Wells and Kwame Appiah-Yeboah to the HRP team. Jamie Wells joins Health Risk Partners as Senior Vice President to oversee HRP operations. Jamie has extensive healthcare and disease management expertise, with specific areas of focus in performance improvement, quality, data management, metrics management, application development, reporting, and business intelligence. Prior to joining HRP, Jamie held Vice President positions with WellPoint, one of the nation's largest health plans, and with EDS, a Fortune 500 national and international IT services company. With over 30 years of business management and information technology experience, he has streamlined operations and delivered solutions to government and commercial clients across the U.S. and abroad. Jamie holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Kennedy-Western University.

Kwame Appiah-Yeboah joins Health Risk Partners as a Senior Health Economics Analyst. At HRP, Kwame will be responsible for statistical modeling related to health outcomes and risk adjustment. Kwame has experience as a healthcare statistician with a CMS contracted vendor that monitors Medicare fraud and abuse. Kwame has also worked for the Martin Agency, where he served as a senior statistician. Kwame holds a Master's in Economics and Statistics from Iowa State University and a Ph.D.in Agricultural Economics from the University of Kentucky.

About Health Risk Partners

Health Risk Partners, LLC, is a healthcare consulting and technology firm dedicated to helping its clients attain the highest levels of compliance, profitability, and strategic planning. The HRP team has extensive experience working with federal and state healthcare payment methodologies and transforming them into solid business practices for Medicare and Medicaid health plans.

HRP helps its clients to manage the Risk Adjustment process for over 1.7 million MA and MAPD lives, including:

  • Enrollment, payment and Part D reconciliation
  • Analytics and medical record targeting
  • Medical record audit and coding
  • Quality assurance and auditing
  • Financial forecasting and reporting
  • CMS file submission
  • End-to-end BPO consulting