Legislative & Regulatory • News CMS Issues Clarifications around Position on Non-Submit MSAs in Updated Version of the WCMSA Reference Guide The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released Version 3.6 of the Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set Aside (WCMSA)... more March 22, 2022 • Shawn Deane & John Kane
Legislative & Regulatory • News Is it True Congress has Proposed Spending Millions to Monitor State Workers’ Comp Systems? In recent months, there have been several articles either directly addressing or alluding to the fact a United States House Committee on... more December 21, 2021 • Paul H. Sighinolfi
Ametros Updates • Compliance • Legislative & Regulatory • News Medicare Set Aside Regulatory Update The date for issuance of a proposed rule relating to Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) obligations around post-settlement medical expenses has... more December 17, 2021 • Shawn Deane
Legislative & Regulatory The Superior Court of Pennsylvania Offers a Lesson in Allocating Settlement Proceeds In early August, the Pennsylvania Superior Court issued a decision that is instructive on the allocation of settlement proceeds. The... more August 31, 2021 • Paul H. Sighinolfi
Compliance • Legislative & Regulatory Workers’ Compensation is a Data Driven Industry, Except When It Comes to Settlements In workers’ compensation, data is at the forefront of many professionals’ work. Lawyers focus on their individual practices... more August 26, 2021 • Paul H. Sighinolfi
Legislative & Regulatory A Preventative Measure to Protect an MSA Account During Divorce Proceedings This summer, The Vermont Supreme Judicial Court issued a decision in the matter of Geraw v Geraw No. 2020-263, June 11, 2021, that is... more August 18, 2021 • Paul H. Sighinolfi
Legislative & Regulatory Medicare is a Secondary Payer: Lessons Learned from Medicare Set-Aside Accounts in Workers’ Compensation and How They Might Apply to Liability Settlements It is the summer of 2001 and the workers’ compensation world is reasonably quiet. In most jurisdictions, the 1980s and 1990s were hotbeds... more March 18, 2021 • Paul H. Sighinolfi
Legislative & Regulatory • News The PAID Act: Opportunities & Challenges Ahead for Claims Payers Background on PAID Act & Overview of Sec. 111 Query Process The Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) statute was amended in December of... more March 10, 2021 • Shawn Deane
Legislative & Regulatory • News The BCRC’s Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Portal Epay Option is Now Available In efforts to assist the Benefits Coordination & Recovery Center (BCRC) in spreading the word in the industry about certain... more March 8, 2021 • Ametros
Education • Legislative & Regulatory Current Trends in Professional Administration: Looking Back & Looking Beyond Medicare Addresses Opioids in Professional Administration In version 3.0 of the Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set Aside (WCMSA)... more December 16, 2020 • Shawn Deane
Legislative & Regulatory • News All Over the Map: The Landscape of Workplace COVID Safety Guidelines & Requirements At the present time there are a total of 11,650,817 COVID-19 cases and 251,715 related deaths in the United States. CDC COVID Data... more December 14, 2020 • Shawn Deane