MSP News
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Eleventh Circuit Holds Section 111 Reporting Can Establish Elements of Private Cause of Action Under MSP Act
by B. Smith The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC v. Metropolitan General Insurance Company, et. al., Case No. 21-11547 (11th Cir. July 18, 2022),...
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CMS Issues WCMSA Reference Guide Version 3.7
Recently, CMS issued Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Arrangement (WCMSA) Reference Guide Version 3.7. CMS updated Section 10.3 with a new link to the CDC Life Table. IMPAXX shared the news that...
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CMS to Begin Using 2019 Life Table
Starting June 4, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin using the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) “Table 1: Life Table for the total population:...
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Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Portal “Go Paperless” Webinar Highlights
By P. Czuprynski The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted a webinar to discuss its option for carriers, self-insureds, or their recovery agents to obtain service of conditional...
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New WCMSA Reference Guide Provides Much Needed Clarification On Section 4.3
By B. Smith On March 21, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) Reference Guide, Version 3.6. The update to...
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How To Make Sense of the CMS WCMSA Webinar
by B. Smith As promised, CMS hosted a WCMSA webinar on February 17, 2022. Although acknowledging that Section 4.3 of the Guide was the most pressing issue webinar participants wanted...
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CMS Issues New Guidance on Evidence-Based MSAs in WCMSA Reference Guide Version 3.5
Earlier this month, CMS issued Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Arrangement (WCMSA) Reference Guide Version 3.5. The guide includes a new section, The Use of Non-CMS-Approved Products to Address Future...
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CMS Releases NGHP User Guide Version 6.5
by Frank Fairchok, Vice President of Medicare Reporting Services In what continues to be an exciting time of change in the Medicare Secondary Payer space, CMS released version 6.5 of...
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CMS Announces Acceptance of Records with Future Entitlement Date
by Frank Fairchok, Vice President of Medicare Reporting Services On September 27, 2021, CMS announced they would begin accepting record submissions where the entitlement date is up to three months...