About

Annette Carter, from the beginning of her career, has been totally immersed in catastrophic medical trauma situations. This includes being a Lifeguard Flight Nurse providing emergency point-of-medical-services to seriously injured persons in difficult to reach locations. Annette is CaseMed’s medical treatment Yoda, if you will, and is deeply connected in the Colorado healthcare communities.

Ms. Carter’s career also involved background experiences in medical equipment solutions and was a co-founder of a new emergency medical technology and product patent. The taste of working in this healthcare field and then getting into case management led to starting CaseMed Solutions.

Annette and her husband live nestled in the beautiful mountains of Colorado where they find a peaceful and joyful life.  One of Annette’s many interests include wellness and maintaining the level of activity that involves exploring the mountains with her border collies. Annette and her husband challenge and embrace life’s adventures every step of the way. As John Muir tells it, “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while care will drop off like autumn leave.”

You can connect with Ms. Carter directly at (303) 868-9115 or at A.Carter@CaseMedSolutions.com.

Dennis Steckler has had a multifaceted business background working in banking, P&C insurance corporate operations & brokerage, technology, consulting and as a surety bond processing business owner. In addition to being CaseMed’s COO, he is the strategic advisor to the CEO and the architect for The InsurHealth Affinity Group development.

Dennis always had a deep respect for medical healthcare for patients as his father, “Dr. Bob” who would take him on house calls to his father’s patients’ homes at the age of 8 years old, watching his father get drafted into the Korean MASH unit 8055 in 1951 (yes that MASH unit), as his father studied to be a Board Certified Radiologist, and as his father’s Radiologist Technician in a small community hospital.

It's from this background and his Christian faith that Dennis enjoys being a part of CaseMed and the Affinity Group that membership in both organizations engenders a deep passion for the holistic healthcare of its patient clients.

You can connect with Mr. Steckler directly at (630) 903-9081 and at Dennis.Steckler@DBCLink.com.

Mr. Worthington is CaseMed’s CTO & DBCLink Director of Advanced Technology in co- partnership with Mr. Steckler. Jeff has a broad background in technology and an in demand advisor to several diverse industry clients. He was the primary CaseMed technical advisor in the development of GuideSmart℠ that is being utilized at CaseMed and will be offered to the InsurHealth Affinity Group members.

During his 25-year career in information technology, Jeff has architected and managed the development of solutions for a broad range of clients. He prides himself as an enterprise and digital transformation architect, project manager, and software engineer who is passionate about pragmatically applying advanced information technology to solve business problems. Mr. Worthington is someone who has developed a unique internet software program he calls, “DASH,” waiting to be implemented in a university setting.

Mr. Worthington also prides himself in his Enterprise Architecture and Solutions Architect skills of making simple-to-complex business technologies work.

You can connect with Mr. Worthington directly at (610) 724-9305 and at Jeff.Worthington@DBCLink.com.

Melissa grew up in the Green Mountains of Vermont and is a University of Southern New Hampshire graduate. She has more than 20 years of industry knowledge and is licensed in 44 states. Melissa has adjusting experience with national accounts, large insurance carriers, third-party administrators, and self-insured companies.

Melissa has 20 plus years in the workers compensation insurance industry, beginning her career as an adjuster, then advancing to national management roles with Gallagher Bassett and Sompo International. Her Colorado claims activities led her to work with CaseMed Solutions, a nurse case management company. Melissa developed very efficient relationships with the nurses at CaseMed as well as other case management companies to best support the desired outcomes for employee claimant rehabilitation needs, the employee claimant’s employer, and that of her insurance claims management objectives.

Melissa joined InsurHealth Affinity Group as the SVP Claims in January 2023. Her primary role is to develop best practice claims and case management interactions and rehabilitation outcomes for injured persons with best outcomes for all parties involved in the claim. One such best practice was the introduction of Data-Sightline Claims Triage combining the efforts of Nurse Case Management, Medical Data Analytics from Care Bridge International and Claim Settlement Options from Arcadia Settlements Group. The Triage Program provides greater accuracy of the impacts and costs of claims while accelerating claims closures.

Now that Melissa lives in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, she is now an avid country music fan and has attended at least 15 Willie Nelson performances.