MS CRC CCM MSCC CMSPP LRC

Mr. Thomas Bott is the owner of Thomas E. Bott and Associates Inc., a private medical case management and rehabilitation counseling company that provides rehabilitation services to injured and disabled individuals. Mr. Bott holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's of science degree in rehabilitation counseling, both from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. In addition, he is currently working toward a Ph.D. in health psychology through Capella University, an accredited institution based in Minneapolis, MN. As well, Mr. Bott is a board Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, a board Certified Case Manager, a board certified Medicare Set-Aside Consultant and holds a new designation as a Certified Medicare Secondary Payor Professional. Mr. Bott is licensed to practice rehabilitation counseling in the State of Louisiana.

Mr. Bott has more than 25 years of experience in private rehabilitation counseling practice. He has steadily worked in the field of rehabilitation counseling since 1975. He entered private rehabilitation counseling in 1981 and in 1988; he founded Thomas E. Bott and Associates Inc. Prior to entering his own practice, from 1983 to 1988, Mr. Bott was employed by a nationwide risk management and rehabilitation company achieving the position of branch manager. While in that position, he acquired substantial supervisory and business management training and experience that has helped him with the operations of his present-day company. Presently, Mr. Bott oversees the operations of four professional counselors, one job researcher, and one marketing specialist.

Mr. Bott has a proven track record providing high quality rehabilitation counseling services to disabled persons as well as serving as a consultant and expert witness in cases undergoing litigation. He has extensive experience working with both plaintiff and defense in worker's compensation matters and in personal injury matters. He has also had extensive experience as a vocational expert witness in Social Security Disability proceedings.

Mr. Bott currently serves as vice-chairperson for the Louisiana Licensed Professional Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors Board of Examiners.

Mr. Bott is a member of the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals, the Louisiana Association of Rehabilitation Professionals and the National Alliance for Medicare Set Aside Professionals.

Top Row (Left to Right): Stony Drake Landry Thomas E. Bott Kevin Hurstell   Bottom Row (Left to Right): Brienne B. Frey Jeanne Duplechain Tarver Karen Zito Mary Jane Soprano

Thomas E. Bott

MS CRC CCM MSCC CMSPP LRC

tom@bottrehab.com

Mr. Thomas Bott is the owner of Thomas E. Bott and Associates Inc., a private casemanagement and rehabilitation counseling company that provides rehabilitation servicesto injured and disabled individuals. Mr. Bott holds a bachelor's degree in psychologyand a master's of science degree in rehabilitation counseling, both from the Universityof Wisconsin, Milwaukee. In addition, he is a doctoral candidate working toward aPh.D. in health psychology through Capella University, an accredited institution basedin Minneapolis, MN. As well, Mr. Bott is a board Certified Rehabilitation Counselor,a board Certified Case Manager, a board certified Medicare Set-Aside Consultant anda Certified Medicare Secondary Payer Professional. Mr. Bott is licensed to practicerehabilitation counseling in the State of Louisiana.

Mr. Bott has 30 years of experience in private rehabilitation counseling practice. He hassteadily worked in the field of rehabilitation counseling since 1975. He entered privaterehabilitation counseling in 1981 and in 1988; he founded Thomas E. Bott and AssociatesInc. Prior to entering his own practice, from 1983 to 1988, Mr. Bott was employed bya nationwide risk management and rehabilitation company achieving the position ofbranch manager. While in that position, he acquired substantial supervisory and businessmanagement training and experience that has helped him with the operations of hispresent-day company.

Mr. Bott has a proven track record providing high quality rehabilitation counselingservices to disabled persons as well as serving as a consultant and expert witness incases undergoing litigation. He has extensive experience working with both plaintiff anddefense in worker's compensation matters and in personal injury matters. In addition, hehas had extensive experience as a vocational expert witness in Social Security Disabilityproceedings. Mr. Bott also has training in the preparation of Life Care Plans andMedicare Set-Aside Allocations.

Mr. Bott is a member of the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionalsand the Louisiana Association of Rehabilitation Professionals. He has served as a boardmember for the Louisiana Association of Rehabilitation Professionals and he is currentlyserving as a vice-chairperson for the Louisiana Licensed Professional VocationalRehabilitation Counselors Board of Examiners.

Jeanne Duplechain Tarver

MS, LRC, CRC

jeanne@bottrehab.com

Ms Tarver earned a Bachelor of General Studies from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and a Master's of Science Degree in Rehabilitation Counselor Education from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Ms Tarver has been employed with Thomas E Bott & Associates for 10 years and provides medical case management and vocational rehabilitation case management services for injured workers throughout Louisiana  

In January 2006, Ms Tarver attended the MediPro Seminar program by the University of Florida where she successfully completed the Medicare Set-Aside Allocation program. Ms Tarver hold an additional credential of Medicare Set-Aside Consultant-Certified, which allows her to perform Medicare Set Aside Allocations

Ms Tarver is a member of the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP) and she is currently the Membership Chair and Acadiana Representative for the local chapter, Louisiana Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (LARP)

Stony Drake Landry

MS, LRC, CRC, MSCC

stony@bottrehab.com

Stony Landry earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and a Master's of Science Degree in Rehabilitation Counselor Education from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

He is a fully licensed and certified Rehabilitation Counselor in Louisiana and has been employed with Thomas E. Bott & Associates for ten years as a vocational rehabilitation consultant.  Stony provides vocational rehabilitation case services to various private insurance companies in the worker's compensation arena in all regions of the state of Louisiana. He has provided expert testimony before the Worker's Compensation Court, Third Circuit, as well as Judicial District Court in Sabine Parish, State of Louisiana. He is a Licensed Rehabilitation Counselor Supervisor and provides guidance and supervision to other counselors.

Stony is a member of the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP) and the state affiliate, Louisiana Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (LARP). Stony currently serves the LARP Board as President for 2011-2012.  Stony is a Certified Medicare Set-Aside Consultant and he is certified with the United States Department of Labor/OWCP to provide vocational rehabilitation services.

Brienne B. Frey

MHS, CRC, LRC

brienne@bottrehab.com

Brienne Frey earned her Bachelor of General Studies degree with a concentration in pre-counseling in 2002 from the University of New Orleans, as well as, a Master's of Health Sciences degree in Rehabilitation Counseling in 2004 from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of Allied Health Professions. 

She is a fully licensed and certified Rehabilitation Counselor in the state of Louisiana. She has been employed with Thomas E. Bott & Associates since May of 2004 as a vocational rehabilitation counselor. Brienne provides medical case management and vocational rehabilitation services to disabled persons who have been injured on the job or have otherwise sustained physical or mental disabilities. 

Also, Brienne is a member of the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP) and the state affiliate, Louisiana Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (LARP).  She is currently serving her second term on the LARP Board of Directors as Member-at-Large. Brienne has also contirbuted to educating Rehabilitation Counseling students at LSUHSC in the Fall of 2010 in a new course on Private Rehabilitation along with two other colleagues in the profession.

Mary Jane Soprano

MHS, CRC, LRC

maryjane@bottrehab.com

Mary Jane Soprano earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Louisiana State University, as well as a Masters of Health Sciences degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.

Mary Jane is a licensed rehabilitation counselor in the state of Louisiana, as well as a certified rehabilitation counselor. She provides vocational rehabilitation and medical case management services throughout the state of Louisiana to individuals who have sustained physical and/or mental disabilities due to a work injury.  Mary Jane has experience working with individuals involved in the State of Louisiana Worker's Compensation system, and has been employed with Thomas E. Bott & Associates since 2008.

Karen Zito

karen@bottrehab.com

is our office manager/marketing person. She is the first employee hired and has been with us since October of 1992. However, she has had more than 13 years of work experience in the claims office of a large insurance company. She has a very thorough knowledge of claims handling but also completely and expertly understands the process of vocational rehabilitation and case management.  This places her in a unique position to be able to be accurately advise claims adjusters or attorneys regarding their case management and vocational rehabilitation needs on the claims that they are handling. Her main responsibilities are to develop and maintain our accounts and to consult with claim adjusters and attorneys with regard to case for assignments.  She does her marketing work both locally and also travels to other cities from time to time to visit with our accounts.  Additionally, she attends all major conferences that pertain to claims. Additionally, she handles all accounts receivable and accounts payable.  Furthermore, she maintains case count of active caseloads of our counselors and assigns new files according to active case loads.

Kevin Hurstell

kevin@bottrehab.com

Was hired in January of 2005 and works in our job development department.  His main function is to research suitably appropriate job leads for the various injured workers that we are handling for job placement.  He is highly skilled in use of the personal computer and conducting effective Internet research.  In addition, Kevin sometimes assists counselors in other functions such as on site job analysis. As well, he schedules the monthly job development research activities for the department. Kevin holds a bachelor's degree in psychology.

Medical Document Retrieval
We will contact medical facilities - such as physicians' offices, hospital medical records departments  and physical therapy and imaging facilities - as needed to retrieve medical records. Read More

Medical Document Summaries and Recommendations
We review and summarize large amounts of medical documents and develop rehabilitation case management for vocational rehabilitation plans. Read More

Patient Appointment Scheduling
We schedule appointments for patients with treating physicians, second medical opinion physicians, physical therapists and functional capacity evaluators, imaging technicians, lab technicians, hospital in- and out-patient facilities and more. Read More

Medical Test Scheduling
We schedule and coordinate patients for any type of medical testing including lab work, x-ray imaging, MRI, CT scans, functional capacity testing, physical therapy evaluations and any other types of medical testing. Read More

Second Medical Opinion Scheduling
We schedule patients for second medical opinions with physicians of appropriate medical specialties. Read More

Facilitate Independent Medical Examinations
At request of patient, patient attorney, defense attorney or insurance claim adjuster, we retrieve medical documents and forward them to the independent medical examining physician to expedite patient independent medical examination. Read More

Vocational Rehabilitation
We provide a full range of vocational rehabilitation services to patients that include: Review and summary of medical documents, Patient assessment interviews, Administration of vocational aptitude and interest testing, etc. Read More

Job Analysis Services
We provide on-site, in-depth job analysis of the patient's previous job. Our reports address job duty modifications and/or workstation modification recommendations. Read More

Vocational Testing Services
Our vocational testing services include administration of vocational aptitude and interest tests useful for the identification of alternative occupations, job placement assistance or for patient referral to vocational training. Read More

Job Placement Assistance Services
These services assist patients with acquisition of suitable jobs in the patient's local job market. Patients are provided with information about job openings. Read More

Vocational Training Assessment, Training Assessment Reports and Patient Referral
If appropriate, patients may be assessed for their potential to succeed in specific short-term vocational training that would lead to a suitably rewarding and satisfying career - as well as improved earning capacity after disability.  Read More

Litigation Support
Our counselors are prepared and available to provide case management and vocational rehabilitation expert testimony during legal proceedings including depositions, hearings and courtroom appearances. Read More

Social Security Disability
Patients that are appealing previously denied Social Security Disability Insurance claims to the Office of Hearings and Appeals may benefit from vocational expert witness testimony at their appeals hearing. Read More

Medicare Set Aside Allocations
Three of our counselors are currently board-certified to prepare Medicare Set-Aside Allocation reports that may be needed during claim settlement proceedings. Read More

Life Care Planning
Our counselors can research and generate life care plan reports for our patients that have sustained catastrophic injuries. Read More

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