Apr 2025
Updates Abound in 2025 With New WCMSA Reference Guide Version 4.3
Author: Michelle Allan, Principal Already off to a hot year in WCMSA updates, CMS kicks off Q2 with another round of new information for the Medicare Secondary Payer community. Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Reference Guide Version 4.3 published April 7, 2025 serves up the awaited language associated with the Amended Review timeframe elimination, as […]
Apr 2025
Medicare Set-Aside Re-Review: Active, Effective, and Successful!
Author: Carolyn McKaige All the talk these days of CMS eliminating waiting periods for Amended Review of an MSA has cast a shadow on its predecessor – the Re-Review process. If you get a result from CMS and don’t want to bite the one-time Amended Review apple just yet, Re-Review is alive and well […]
Apr 2025
MSA Data: Section 111 Changes – A Guide to the New Reality
Author: Beth Hostetler As of April 2025, the new Section 111 reporting requirements mandate the inclusion of MSA data for all workers’ compensation settlements, regardless of whether the voluntary MSA review process with CMS was followed. CMS has indicated that the reported data would be posted with a “W” to each applicable beneficiary’s Common […]
