Dr. Bill Hopper named MediCall Medical Director

PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--California based MediCall, a specialized healthcare services provider, announced today announced that Dr. Bill Hopper, MD, MBA, CPE, FAAFP has been named the company’s Medical Director to oversee the clinical aspects of MediCall’s workers’ compensation practice.

In his role with MediCall, Dr. Hopper will develop and oversee processes to ensure MediCall clients continuously receive only the highest quality services. Dr. Hopper’s responsibilities will include oversight of the MediCall workers’ compensation staff, ongoing audit processes, the development and deployment of improvement projects and processes, and strict adherence to all state, federal and regulatory guidelines.

“Dr. Hopper brings a long and impressive set of credentials to his role as MediCall’s Medical Director,” commented John Chess, MediCall’s CEO. “His combined medical expertise and clinical background will be invaluable in our efforts. He will play a key role in overseeing our workers’ compensation services, and we will look to him to help us continue to expand and enhance our healthcare service offerings.”

Dr. Hopper's more than three decades of clinical experience has included medical management, emergency medicine, solo rural family medicine, medical groups, including Sutter Medical Group of Santa Rosa, the Permanente Medical Group of the Northeast, Concentra, the Vancouver Clinic, Lifelong Medical Care (Berkeley, CA), US Healthworks, and has expertise in clinic-based occupational, urgent care, family and addiction medicine. He has developed and managed utilization and quality management programs for hospitals, medical groups, IPAs, MSOs and health plans in California, New York, North Carolina, Washington State, and Oregon. He has extensive experience in the development and application of electronic health records, quality and practice performance improvement programs, evidence-based medicine, billing fraud, practice protocols, and regulatory compliance.

Dr. Hopper graduated from Union College, St. Louis University Medical School and completed his residency at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco, CA. He also completed the executive MBA program at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. Dr. Hopper has served on the faculty of Sonoma State University Department of Psychology, UC Davis School of Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University and the American Academy of Family Physicians. He has also presented graduate educational seminars at Albany Medical School, Duke University Medical School, University of Washington and other organizations. He was a member of the Board of Directors for the Pacific Foundation for Medical Care and has served as Chief of Staff for Palm Drive Hospital in Sebastopol, CA. Dr. Hopper has also served as an Expert Medical Reviewer for the Medical Board of California.

His impressive list of certifications include: Certified Physician Executive, The Certifying Commission in Medical Management, American Board of Medical Management, American Society of Addiction Medicine, Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine, Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Examiners.

About MediCall

Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, MediCall, Inc. is a specialized global healthcare service outsourcer (HSO) for the workers’ compensation and healthcare services markets. In addition to its U.S. operations, MediCall offers global Service Centers staffed with healthcare professionals enabling MediCall clients to easily extend the reach of their medical and disability management programs. MediCall’s vast network of healthcare staff includes highly experienced nurses, physicians, and pharmacists. With its breadth and depth of in-house healthcare expertise and world-class, highly secure healthcare IT infrastructure, MediCall is uniquely positioned to offer top-quality, cost-efficient healthcare related services. The industry’s tremendous (and growing) staffing challenge due to the U.S. nursing shortage, combined with cost containment pressures being faced by today’s insurance market, make MediCall’s services an attractive option for virtually any workers’ compensation or healthcare insurance related company looking to achieve significant and measurable benefits. MediCall services are designed exclusively for the healthcare market and are both HIPAA compliant and URAC Core accredited.

For additional information on MediCall, please visit the website at www.medicall.us, email us at info@medicall.us, or call us at 1-972-899-0873.