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		<title>Fifth Circuit Affirms: Medicare Cannot Recover Conditional Payments where Treatment is Unauthorized under State Law</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We previously blogged about a case wherein Medicare was unable to recover conditional payments due to the fact that the claimant sought unauthorized treatment under Texas workers’ compensation law. Please click here to read our prior blog. On appeal, the Firth Circuit has affirmed this decision; please see Caldera v. The Insurance Company of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louisiana District Court Approves Apportioned Liability Medicare Set-Aside</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A liability case out of a District Court in Louisiana, Benoit v. Neustrom, 2013 U.S. Dist. Lexis 55971 (April 17, 2013), issued an order wherein an LMSALiability Medicare Set-Aside was apportioned and reduced. A Motion for Declaratory Judgment was filed by Michael Benoit (“Plaintiff”), in which he sought a judgment to declare the interests of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corrected CMS NGHP MIR User Guide Version 3.6 Now Available</title>
		<link>http://medicareinsights.com/2013/05/10/corrected-cms-nghp-mir-user-guide-version-3-6-now-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 29, we posted a blog notifying our subscribers that CMSCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services had issued an updated NGHPNon-Group Health Plan - liablity (including self-insurance), no-fault and workers' compensation User Guide (version 3.5). PMSI has been informed that CMSCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services has just posted User Guide version 3.6. CMSCenters for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Inclusion of Benzodiazepines and Barbiturates in WCMSAs</title>
		<link>http://medicareinsights.com/2013/05/06/update-on-inclusion-of-benzodiazepines-and-barbiturates-in-wcmsas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 20:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Settlement Solutions</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of January 1, 2013, Medicare expanded its Part D guidelines to include coverage for benzodiazepines and barbiturates for certain conditions. For more information on this new expanded coverage, when it will be covered, and how this coverage change is predicted to apply to WCMSAs, please see our prior blog here. CMSCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently issued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CMS Releases Updated NGHP User Guide</title>
		<link>http://medicareinsights.com/2013/04/29/cms-releases-updated-nghp-user-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 22, 2013, CMSCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services released an updated User Guide for NGHPsNon Group Health Plans. Access to the updated User Guide can be found here. PMSI applauds the early release of this User Guide as CMSCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services indicated in their recent April 9, 2013 teleconference that [...]]]></description>
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