By B. Smith CMS has released a new version of the Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) Reference Guide, 3.3, COBR-Q2-2021-v3.3 dated April 19, 2021. The new Guide includes additional language regarding the calculation of the seed money for structured...
Jun 12, 2020 by Bridget Smith, JD CMS Issues New Section 111 Alert for Reporting No-Fault Insurance Limit on Non-Group Health Plan (NGHP) Claim Input Files In this Alert dated June 8, 2020, CMS reminds Non-Group Health Plan (NGHP) Responsible Reporting Entities...
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...
– 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...
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...
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