Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), held an informative webinar to address the benefits of using the Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Portal (MSPRP), a web-based application for managing Medicare recovery cases (or conditional payments). The webinar was an overview explaining the various benefits of using the MSPRP, how to get started using […] Continue
Last week, the National Alliance of Medicare Set Aside Professionals (NAMSAP), through their Liability Medicare Set Aside (LMSA) Committee issued a special edition bulletin about LMSAs. The bulletin described an April 16, 2018 meeting between NAMSAP members and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The informational bulletin, which is subject to change until […] Continue
Shark Week is a magical week; providing some of the most enthralling and illuminating insight into jaw-dropping actions of magnificent beings. As with previous years, Shark Week 2018 did not disappoint. Many of us can recall learning in basic grade school science that sharks are a necessary evil to keep the ecosystem in a proper […] Continue
You may recall we recently advised that CMS released an updated Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Portal (MSRP) user guide, with the intention of creating more efficient practices. CMS will be hosting a webinar to present the benefits of using the MSPRP, as well presenting the newly available features. The webinar will be held on August […] Continue
In a landmark approval on June 25th, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Epidiolex® (oral cannabidiol solution) for the treatment of seizures associated with Lennox-Gestaut Syndrome or Dravet Syndrome, in children two years of age and older. Epidiolex is the first marijuana-based drug approved for use in the United States. Two other drugs previously […] Continue
The Administrative Law Judge Division of the Industrial Commission of Arizona has issued guidance for cases involving full and final settlements, in the form of an informative and suggested best practices document. The document can be found here, and applies to full and final settlements that take place on or after August 3, 2018. You […] Continue
You may have seen the recent chatter among the Medicare Secondary Payer community that implementation of a formal voluntary Liability MSA (LMSA) and No-Fault MSA (NFMSA) review program is on hold. Some in the industry have even discussed that the program is on hold for another eighteen months. Recall that in 2016, we first blogged […] Continue
CMS recently released an updated Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Portal (MSRP) user guide in the hopes to lead to some more efficient practices. A summary of the updates is as follows: To reduce the number of calls received by the BCRC regarding the status of case correspondence, a new read-only Letter Activity tab has […] Continue
You may recall in 2014, Senators Portman and Nelson introduced a Senate Bill, “[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.” However, the legislation failed and never made it out of the Committee on […] Continue
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued a press release concerning a settlement arrangement involving the repayment of conditional payments. U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that the Philadelphia personal injury law firm, Rosenbaum & Associates, and its principal, Jeffrey Rosenbaum entered into a settlement agreement […] Continue