Last week, in a pre-Halloween treat mode, CMS released a revised Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) Reference Guide. The updated guide is version 3.0, dated October 10, 2019, and can be found here. As with other versions of the guide, updates are found in Section 1.1. Of the updates, there are two of great significance […] Continue
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a revised Self-Administration Toolkit for Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) Arrangements, version 1.3 yesterday. The purpose of this toolkit is to describe the WCMSA self-administration process and provide guidelines for claimants who are administering their own WCMSA. Specifically, the toolkit: Describes the self-administration process, from when […] Continue
Many of us in the industry continue to wait with bated breath for information related to a proposed rule for Civil Money Penalties for Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Reporting. You may recall our recent blog postings announcing an advanced notice of a proposed rule involving MSP reporting, and a subsequent update to the notice, which […] Continue
Last week, the Ninth Circuit United States Court of Appeals issued an important decision involving the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the California Insurance Guaranty Fund (CIGA) in Cal. Ins. Guarantee Ass’n v. Azar, Nos. 17-56526, 17-56528, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 30339 (9th Cir. Oct. 10, 2019). We last discussed this case in […] Continue
You may have seen our blog post on Friday, regarding an alert from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding two upcoming webinars to highlight a new electronic attestation feature on the Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside portal. CMS also issued an alert on Friday morning regarding an additional enhancement to the Medicare Secondary […] Continue