Medicare Set-Aside Blog
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June 29th, 2010Keep up to date with MSP compliance issues, CMS alerts, industry commentary and insurance related content. Awarded a Top 25 Blog by Lexis Nexis.
MEDVAL to present webinar on Liability Medicare Set Asides (LMSAs)
July 26th, 2010We are preparing a webinar focusing on the issues involved in creating Medicare Set Asides in Liability cases. For additional details, please e-mail Patrick Reardon at preardon@medval.com.
Medicare Secondary Payer Enforcement: Shifting the Burden of Medicare to the Private Sector by Jennifer Jordan
July 22nd, 2010This article is from The Brief, the magazine of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association.
The Medicare Secondary Payer Act (the MSP)1 was passed in 1980 with the intent of reducing Medicare spending by prohibiting the program from making payment in situations where another entity possessed a legal or contractual obligation to provide medical treatment. Although under the MSP Medicare retains the right to make conditional payments under certain circumstances and subject to statutory recovery rights, the reality is that Medicare makes payment because the intermediary or insurance carrier representing the government program is unaware that a primary payer exists. read more…
LexisNexis® Workers Compensation Law Community Podcast featuring MEDVAL’s Ryan Roth on the Importance of Rated Age for Medicare Set-Asides
July 22nd, 2010On this edition, Ryan D. Roth, President and co-founder of Medval, discusses why rated age is important for MSAs, recent CMS clarifications and how they impact preparation and submission of an MSA.
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