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CMS Issues New WCMSA Reference Guide 3.1
May 19, 2020 by Bridget Smith, JD CMS has released a new Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Reference Guide, Version 3.1, May 11, 2020, COBR-Q2-2020-v3.1 a link to which can be found here: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/wcmsa-reference-guide-version-31.pdf...
CMS Publishes Public Comments to Proposed Section 111 Civil Monetary Penalties Rule
- May 13, 2020 by Bridget Smith CMS received over 80 public comments in response to the Medicare Secondary Payer and Certain Civil Monetary Penalties Proposed Rule that was issued in February of this year. Although the comments differed in some respects, there were...
Pitfalls and Perils: The True Benefits of Self-Administration Support
When parties choose to avail themselves of the CMS Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) voluntary submission process and the claimant is left to self-administer the WCMSA funds, there is “happily ever after” assumption that follows. The parties sometimes...