Fran Provenzano, RN, BSN, CDMS, CCM, CLCP, MSCC
President
MSA Specialists

Fran Provenzano, BSN, is the President and CEO of Medicare Set-Aside (MSA), Specialists, Inc. She formed the company in 2002 and it has flourished under her guidance. MSA Specialists has been accepted as a national provider of MSAs by several major insurance carriers as well as some of the top Third Party Administrators.

Provenzano is a highly sought speaker on MSAs. She has addressed the National Conferences of Legal Nurse Consultants, several national education seminars on MSA instruction and many evaluation criteria/education sessions for Claims Adjusters. She earned her RN license and BSN Degree. Within the hospital setting, she has served in virtually all phases of the nursing field from the operating theater, through patient education, Lamaze Instruction and discharge planning.

In the late 1980s, Provenzano directed her talents toward Disability Management, obtaining her Certified Disabilities Management Specialists (CDMS). She was among the first nurses to obtain Certified Case Manager (CCM) Certification followed shortly thereafter by her Life Care Planning Certification (CLCP). Most recently, she once again was among the first in the nation to earn the Medicare Set-Aside Consultant-Certified (MSCC) designation.

Jennifer Shymanski, JD, CMSP-F
Vice President, Implementation and Strategy
NuQuest

Jennifer Shymanski, JD, CMSP-F is the Vice President of Implementation and Strategy for NuQuest. Using her eleven years of experience working at a large national carrier and ten years of experience in Medicare Secondary Payer compliance, her focus is on assisting clients in designing and then implementing their MSP compliance programs.  As part of the NuQuest Settlement Consultant Team, Shymanski uses that claims and MSP experience to assist clients in reaching optimal outcomes for their claim resolutions. Jennifer also develops the training content and creates the educational programs at NuQuest.

Shymanski is the co-chair of The National MSP Network’s Webinar Committee and a member of the Communications Committee.  She is also an instructor for the Certified Medicare Secondary Payer (CMSP) and CMSP-Fellow designations.  And is an adjunct instructor of Business Law at Northcentral Technical College in Wausau, Wisconsin.

Tom Spratt, CMSP
Independent MSP Consultant

After a long career in Casualty insurance handling  Workers' Compensation and Liability  matters, Tom Spratt has been actively involved in Medicare Secondary Payer compliance  since 1999 when he developed a ground-breaking  Medicare Secondary Payer compliance program for a national carrier. He has spoken on this subject at  national insurance industry conferences as well as training sessions for clients. 

He has a long record of active involvement in the insurance industry, serving on committees for the Workers' Compensation Research Institute/WCRI, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America/PCIAA and the Strategic Services on Unemployment and Workers' Compensation/UWC. He also served on committees for the National Structured Settlement Trade Association/NSSTA and the National Alliance of Medicare Set-Aside Professionals/NAMSAP as well as the NAMSAP Board of Directors.
 
He is on the faculty of the CMSP (Certified Medicare Secondary Payer designation program), which is the only program where both the law and allocations make up the curriculum.

He currently is an Independent Consultant with a special focus on Apportioned MSP Allocations in Liability matters in the settlement process.