On February 27, 2015, CMS published in the Federal Register the SMART Act Appeal Final Rule which can be located at 80 Fed. Reg. 10611. The rule can be found here and will go into effect on April 28, 2015. CMS had previously issued the Proposed Rule on this very topic on December 27, 2013. Materially, the … Read moreSummary of Final Rule: Conditional Payment Appeals Process for Applicable Plans
On February 18, 2014, CMS issued an alert notifying the industry of a threshold in which liability settlements would no longer need to be reported to CMS under MMSEA Section 111 and also would not require conditional payment reimbursement under the MSP. A copy of the alert can be found here. In the alert, CMS … Read moreCMS Issues Liability Insurance Settlement Reporting and Recovery Threshold Pursuant to SMART Act
In a case out of the Court of Appeals of Oregon, Rhoades v. Beck, 2014 Ore. App. LEXIS 82 (January 23, 2014), a personal injury lawsuit gone wrong demonstrates that when parties do not consider Medicare’s interests during their settlement discussions, not only can the plaintiff lose her right to reimbursement, so can Medicare. This … Read moreLiability plaintiff loses its right to reimbursement; So does Medicare
1. Conditional Payment Processes will improve- CMS announced on December 23, 2013 that it will launch the Benefits Coordination and Recovery Center (BCRC) on February 1, 2014. The two units that will be consolidated are the Coordination of Benefits and the Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery units. They will collectively be called the BCRC, and the … Read moreMSP Predictions for 2014