MSP News
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MSPN Annual Conference Recap
By M. Heberling and D. Dietz The National MSP Network held their annual educational conference on September 25-27. This was an exciting year to be at the conference as there...
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CMS to Host Second Webinar on Certain Civil Money Penalties Final Rule for NGHP Responsible Reporting Entities
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced they will be hosting their second Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) and Certain Civil Money Penalties (CMPs) Informational Webinar on...
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CMS Announces COB&R Outages for Last Weekend in June
Due to system modernization efforts, there will be outages to the following Coordination of Benefits & Recovery (COB&R) applications and operations during the last weekend in June. Normal operations...
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Court Determines Medicare Advantage Lien Was Invalid in Wrongful Death Med-Mal Action
By B. Smith In Meador v. United States (D. Mass. Feb. 13, 2024)[1], plaintiffs filed a wrongful death action and loss of consortium claim arising from treatment the decedent, an...
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CMS Releases WCMSA 2023 Fiscal Year Statistics
by B. Smith The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the fiscal year statistics (2020 to 2023) for Workers Compensation Medicare Set-Asides (WCMSAs) submitted to CMS as part...
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OIRA Issues Notice Regarding Civil Money Penalties Rule. Is a Final Rule on the Way?
by B. Smith The Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) published a notice regarding its review of the Medicare Secondary Payer and Certain Civil...
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CMS to Increase Availability of “Fixed Percentage” Option for Reimbursement of Conditional Payments
by Settlement Consulting Team Medicare recently issued a notice that the requirements associated with the fixed percentage approach to resolving conditional payments associated with certain settlements are changing. Effective October 2,...
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CMS Issues Outage Notifications for Key Services
The migration of the Baltimore Data Center (BDC) to a new Data Center (Ashburn, VA) will have an impact on several key services. There will be outages to the...
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CMS Releases New WCMSA Reference Guide Version 3.9
by B. Smith On May 15, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an updated Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Arrangement (WCMSA) User Guide version 3.9, which contains...