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Lisa Firestone, president and CEO of Managed Care Advisors, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for her latest Executive Spotlight interview with the publication.

Sedgwick, a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions, today announced it has acquired Managed Care Advisors, Inc. (MCA), a Bethesda, Maryland-based government contracting firm and leading provider of workers’ compensation and specialty health plan products and services to the U.S. federal government. 

Lisa Firestone, CEO of Managed Care Advisors, Inducted to 2021 WIPP (Women Impacting Public Policy) Legacy Leadership Circle for Lifetime Contributions to Women in Business

Managed Care Advisors (MCA) boosts capabilities with acquisition of Danbury, CT. contact center including 24/7 incident reporting hotline

Managed Care Advisors (MCA) has appointed Michael Smith as chief information officer (CIO) to support the organization’s growth strategy and business opportunities, following the recent award of  SaaS, Case Management and COVID-19 Management contracts.

Lisa Firestone, MHSA president and owner of Managed Care Advisors (MCA), recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company’s new acquisitions, hires, and technologies that have expanded MCA’s presence in the federal sector.

Managed Care Advisors Awarded $68 Million Single Award BPA by Homeland Security (DHS) to Support Federal Workers’ Compensation Medical Case Management.

Providing services to support the intake, documentation, medical case management, tracking, and reporting of potential exposures to COVID-19, Managed Care Advisors and University of Maryland, Baltimore leverage proven technological and clinical expertise in response to the current pandemic.

Managed Care Advisors, Inc. (MCA), a leading provider of healthcare products and services, has been named to Inc. magazine’s annual Inc 5000 list for the fourth consecutive year (2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019).

Managed Care Advisors, Inc. (MCA), a leading provider of healthcare products and services, today announced that it has been certified under ISO 9001:2015 by Performance Review Institute, an ANAB-accredited organization recognized as a premier registrar for quality, aerospace, environmental and safety registrations.

Managed Care Advisors, Inc. (MCA), a leading provider of healthcare products and services, today announced its acquisition of WebOPUS® Federal, a comprehensive, cloud-based workers’ compensation case management, document storage and reporting system that has been customized to meet the needs of Federal agencies since 2005.

Managed Care Advisors’ (MCA) President and CEO, Lisa M. Firestone, will be a panelist at the 2019 WIPP Business Leadership Conference.

Recognized for its impressive three-year revenue growth, Managed Care Advisors (MCA) again joins the exclusive Inc. 5000 list of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies. MCA ranks #2961 overall on the Inc. 5000 list.

The Maryland Department of Health (MDH), along with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) selected Management Solutions, LLC (MSLLC), as a Care Transformation Organization (CTO) for the Maryland Primary Care Program on Aug. 1, 2018.

Bethesda-based Company Climbs More than 400 Spots from 2016 with Three Year Revenue Growth of 139%. “We are proud to have established ourselves as a leading organization that empowers both our employees and customers to attain and sustain health and productivity,” said MCA Sr. Vice President, Susan Kappel.

Congratulations to David Sack, MD, MS, FACOEM who was recently named Managed Care Advisors' Chief Medical Officer.

"Workers’ compensation occupies a unique niche in the worlds of both medical care and disability insurance. Despite this, current compensation systems almost uniformly adhere to the CMS rules for applying the CPT system, which causes misalignment of reimbursement for necessary physician activities regarding functional ability and work-relatedness."

Managed Care Advisors (MCA) ranked #2938 in this year’s Inc. 5000, an annual list of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. Winning multiple federal government contracts, and doubling its workforce, MCA achieved a three-years sales growth of 117%.

Daryl Whitman, Managed Care Advisors' COO and Senior Vice President, has joined the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce 2016-2017 Board of Directors. Mr. Whitman has over 19 years of experience in managed care, specialty health care programs, and project management. His experience has focused on turnaround management, standing up new organizations and functions, and optimizing operating and financial results.

Lake Mary, March 2, 2016 – Managed Care Advisors (MCA), headquartered in Bethesda, MD, today announced it has opened a new office in Lake Mary, Florida. MCA is a certified woman-owned small business specializing in employee benefits, disability management, absence management, medical case management, and claims management with a unique expertise and suite of products specific to Federal Workers’ Compensation.

A new survey finds that barely half of the nation’s physicians realize they can check a database at any time to determine if their patients are abusing opioids. The survey was coupled with an interactive webinar presented by Marianne Cloeren, MD.

As one of the federal government’s last acts of 2015, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council issued an interim rule on December 31, 2015, to immediately allow contracting officers to award sole source contracts in the Women Owned Small Business (WOSB) procurement program.

Dr. Marianne Cloeren was recently selected to be a member of the Spine 10 X 25 Coalition’s Tactical Team. The Coalition Task Force will be charged with creating the tactics for achieving the Spine 10 X 25 Initiative’s goal of securing a 10% reduction in United States spine-related disability by 2025.

The annual Enterprising Women of the Year Awards is widely considered one of the most prestigious recognition programs for women business owners. To win, nominees must demonstrate that they have fast-growth businesses, mentor or actively support other women and girls involved in entrepreneurship, and stand out as leaders in their communities.

“The federal marketplace is an enormous opportunity,” said Lisa Firestone of Managed Care Advisors of Bethesda, Maryland.

“The success of Managed Care Advisors is the result of hard work, dedication, focus and having an incredible team of employees and advisors."

Lisa Firestone, president and CEO of Managed Care Advisors, a health-care consultancy, cautioned against trying to be everything to everybody.

Lisa Firestone was featured in CNBC’s article on 6 owners making millions from government work.

Occupational and environmental medicine focuses on the interactions between work and health.

Lisa Firestone was featured in Business Insiders article on lessons learned from 15 small business ceos.

“What I have learned is that there really in no “special consideration” but just an opportunity to level the playing field. While certifications can get your business noticed by government agencies, being a woman-owned, veteran-owned, small business, HUB Zone, and/or 8(a) organization guarantees you nothing.”

Servicing federal government contracts was a huge opportunity with the potential to take the business to the next level.

Managed Care Advisors Wins BPA Contract Award from The Department of Homeland Security for Workers’ Compensation Medical Case Management Services.

As the shutdown stretches into its third week, women business owners are anxious to see a resolution of the government shutdown and impending debt ceiling crisis. In two days, the U.S. government will be at risk of defaulting on its financial obligations, due to a failure to increase the debt ceiling. Meanwhile, Congress does not appear to have reached agreement on reopening the federal government.

Hearing entitled: "Small business speak, surviving the government shutdown?"

Owners from ten different small businesses testified today in front of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Each witness emphasized the long term effects of the shutdown and urged federal lawmakers to open the government. “There is nothing to do but sit, wait and lose the precious resources of time and money,” said Managed Care Advisors CEO Lisa Firestone.

GSA acquisitions are especially attractive to the government during the fourth quarter when time is of the essence.

MCA’s very own Barbara DeGray and Aimee Uhrig shed light on a very important topic to workers’ compensation: opioids. Their presentation for the Annual Case Management Society of America Conference highlighted opioid-induced barriers for employers, injured workers, and case managers and discussed methods of overcoming those barriers.

No doubt the current economic and political climate has impacted government contracting, putting a shadow of doubt over procurements that have been scheduled and adding pressure to reduce spending on contracted services. Amidst this backdrop, business owners may wonder if government contracting is still a smart growth strategy in 2013. I’m optimistic, and here’s why.

Lisa Firestone, president and chief executive of Managed Care Advisors, a worker’s compensation and disability management specialist consulting firm in Bethesda, was at a launch event for the initiative. Eighty-five percent of Managed Care Advisors’ work comes from government contracts, but she said she sometimes finds it challenging to win them.

Managed Care Advisors, Inc. (MCA), a woman-owned small business specializing in workers’ compensation case management services, employee benefits and disability management consulting, was awarded a $21 million contract over five years.

Firestone, 53, has watched her company, Managed Care Advisors in Bethesda, grow from a two-person peer consulting business to a 37-employee workers’ compensation case management business that includes consulting. She is its founder, CEO and president. The company has been on a bit of roll, with revenues growing 38 percent from fiscal 2010 to fiscal 2011. She’s looking at 37 percent growth in fiscal 2012 and projecting at least 43 percent for fiscal 2013, though she would not disclose specific numbers.

From large federal agencies and private corporations to small business enterprises, employers are enabling more employees to work away from the main place of business. This trend also brings new challenges. Taking a proactive approach to managing the perks and perils of remote work can bring good outcomes for both the employee and the employer.

Firestone writes that more and more employers are engaging in worksite wellness programs that lower health care costs. “In fact, according to American Journal of Health Promotion every $1 invested in a corporate wellness program returns $4 in reduced health care costs and $5 in reduced absenteeism over a period of three to five years,” she writes.

Lisa Firestone, president of health care contractor Managed Care Advisors in Bethesda, said getting on the GSA schedule and learning to use it was key for her company. At one point, she said she realized she was in the wrong GSA category and switched. Now, 80 percent of her contracts come through the schedule.

To attract and retain skilled and creative employees, many companies are overlooking a perk that could help them snag top hires: The chance to work away from the office. All companies from small to large and across industries are able to offer this as a perk -“ with a plan in mind. Size should not dictate whether a company offers remote work or telecommuting. So what does it take?

The LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation Law Community and the award-winning blog Work Comp Roundup have teamed up to present some common myths and facts about workers’ compensation. Our contributors represent different segments of the workers’ compensation industry.

As a health care professional, I have always made employer sponsored health insurance a business priority. However, over the past several years it has become an increasingly difficult benefit to maintain, manage and afford.

After spending years in the alphabet soup of federal contracting, Managed Care Advisors (MCA) has thrown its hat in the ring of acronyms-as-words with CARE: Concentrated Action for Recovery Employment. They take a special approach to nurse case management.

Objective: This pilot study examined whether contract case managers are cost effective in reducing workers' compensation (WC) costs and preventing injuries. Methods: We placed contract medical case managers at four installations where they employed private industry best practices.

This month, the TSA hired Managed Care Advisors of Maryland and Innovations Group of Arizona for $17 million over five years. The contractors will review medical records of injured employees and recommend ways to get them back to work.

By placing recovering employees in volunteer positions with nonprofit organizations, Amtrak is providing much needed help to cash-strapped groups while helping its own employees get back on track to regular duty faster. Managed Care Advisors Inc. (MCA) acts as a consultant on the program.