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On November 14, 2022, CMS released version 3.8 of the WCMSA Reference Guide. If you attended the Medicare Secondary Payer Network 2022 Annual Conference (The National Medicare Secondary Payer Network) in September, you may have been anxiously anticipating the release of this updated guide with the hope that clarification on re-review requests would be provided […]

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 […]

CMS will now provide RREs, as well as their Recovery Agents, with the option to go paperless with respect to Medicare recovery correspondence. In an updated NGHP Section 111 User Guide release, version 6.7, CMS states that insurers and their recovery agents may elect to receive electronic correspondence so long as a Medicare Secondary Payer […]

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 […]

Over recent weeks, CMS has posted a duo of alerts to the Non-Group Health Plan Mandatory Insurer Reporting landing page. While these alerts do not place any new obligations or requirements on Responsible Reporting Entities, they do provide some helpful reminders, coupled with a bit of guidance. The first alert, released October 26, 2021, provides […]