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
You may recall that in 2018 we reported that a Senate Bill was introduced, “[t]o amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the application of Medicare secondary payer rules to certain workers’ compensation settlement agreements and qualified Medicare set-aside provisions.” As we described it, the Bill was a piece of legislation to […] Continue
Last week, we provided an update that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the Unified Agenda as related to the proposed rulemaking for guidance regarding how to satisfying Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) obligations. The Unified Agenda was also recently updated with respect to the proposed rule regarding civil money penalties for MSP […] Continue