OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM

Dan Neubert

Chief Operating Officer

Email: Dan.N@minutemenmco.com

Dan Neubert has been the Chief Operating Officer of MinuteMen OhioComp since 2002. He has over 30 years of experience in workers’ compensation, including being the former Director of Medical Claims for the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. While at the BWC, he held other key management positions and facilitated several projects including development of the V3 Case Management System.

• Certified rehabilitation counselor and certified disability management specialist

Ronald Hawes, M.D.

Medical Director, Occupational Medicine

Dr. Hawes specializes in family medicine and is affiliated with the Akron General Medical Center where he serves as the Medical Director for their Health and Wellness Centers. He rejoined MinuteMen OhioComp in 2015 where he previously worked from 2001-2012. He is a member of the Summit County Workplace Wellness Symposium Committee and served on the State Bureau of Workers' Compensation Manage Care Organization Medical Director's Committee from 2001-2012. Dr. Hawes is a Clinical Professor in Family Medicine at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine where he has been teaching since 1998.

• Medical degree: University of Toledo College of Medicine

Otto Schmidt, D.C.

Medical Director, Chiropractor

Dr. Schmidt is a board certified chiropractor and owner of the Pleasant Valley Chiropractic Clinic in Parma. He has a post-graduate certificate in spinal trauma and has been practicing since 1992. Dr. Schmidt served as President and later Chairman of the Board for the Ohio State Chiropractic Association (OSCA). He has also represented the chiropractic profession on the BWC Health Care Quality Assurance Advisory Committee.

• Medical Degree: Palmer College of Chiropractic

Megan Washington

Director of Billing

Email: Megan.W@minutemenmco.com

Megan Washington joined MinuteMen OhioComp's billing department in 2010 and is the Director of Billing. She oversees coding, billing and the utilization review. She has over 17 years of workers' compensation billing experience.

• Serves on the BWC Billing and Reimbursement Committee

 

Lynn Popovich, RN, BSN, CCM

Director of Case Management

Email: Lynn.P@minutemenmco.com

Lynn Popovich has worked for MinuteMen OhioComp since 2006 and is the Director of Case Management. She has over 14 years of workers' compensation experience. She has held various positions including case manager and vocational rehabilitation case manager.

• Certified Case Manager
• Serves on the BWC MCO Quality of Care Committee
• Degree: Bachelor of Science and Nursing, Case Western Reserve University

Sara Kain, RN

Director of Compliance

Email: Sara.K@minutemenmco.com

Sara Kain has worked for MinuteMen OhioComp since 2013 and has over 10 years of workers' compensation experience. She has held various positions including case manager and Assistant Director of Case Management.

• Certified Case Manager

Michelle Leeser, RN

Director of UM/UR

Email: Michelle.L@minutemenmco.com

Michelle Leeser has worked at MinuteMen Ohiocomp since 2016 and is the director of UM/UR and the policy coordinator . She has 20 years of acute care nursing experience. She has held various positions in management including Director of nursing, quality control management, safety management, post-op acute care, and policy and procedure management.

• Degree: Associates, Akron U

Anthony Kafiti

Director of Information Technology

Email: anthonyk@minutemenmco.com

Anthony Kafiti has been the Director of Information Technology at MinuteMen OhioComp since 2000. He led the implementation of MCO Central, MinuteMen OhioComp’s web-based claims management software, along with being the Open Enrollment coordinator since 2002.

• Degree: College of Business, Management Information Systems, Ohio University