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Indemnified Medicare Set-Asides:  A Dangerous Deal for Carriers, Beneficiaries, and Taxpayers  What You Need to Know Before You “Buy” In The market for guaranteed Medicare Set-Aside arrangements in workers’ compensation cases remains complex and often opaque. This complexity has unfortunately created opportunities for products promising simplicity and cost savings, but which may carry substantial risks. […]

A recent change to a Medicare Secondary Payer Manual brings Medicare Set-Asides into play for doctors and other medical service providers, who as of March 24 are obligated to direct bill those trusts. Just a year after Medicare’s Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Reference Guide update strenuously emphasized the utility of MSAs in protecting Beneficiary entitlements […]

Following the release of the updated Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Arrangement (WCMSA) Reference Guide, Version 3.5, dated January 10, 2022, we have been waiting for CMS to announce a webinar to discuss the clarification on use of non-CMS approved products to address future medical care that this updated guide contained.  According to the Webinar Announcement […]

Whether or not to submit has through the years been touted as the main event at dozens of national conferences and seminars, promoting these sessions like MSP cage-match battles, pitting experts against one another in impassioned debate. Today Medicare put to rest more than a decade of MSP industry contention regarding whether Workers’ Compensation Medicare […]

It’s beginning to look a lot like LMSA rules aren’t happening in 2021. So if this was your wish from Santa, you must be on The Naughty List. This week, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) updated the timeframe from October 2021 to February of 2022. And for all of the “Nice” primary […]

On September 9, 2021, CMS will host its second informational webinar relative to the PAID Act. Per CMS’ Alert dated August 9, 2021, the webinar “will offer important PAID Act reminders and focus on the details of the upcoming testing period, which will begin on September 13, 2021.” As with the roll-out webinar of June […]