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The Official Medicare Set Aside Blog And Information Resource: Category Archive for Commentary

It Is Apparently Not Just Medicare That Work Comp Routinely Burdens

Factual Existence of a Primary Plan Required

H.R. 5730 - Legislation that Might Actually Help Prepare More Consistent MSAs

Evidence that the Threshold for Establishing a WC Back Injury Might be Little Low

Responsibility for Opioid Problem Still not Being Placed on Physicians

Dissatisfied CMS customer

At What Point Does a Preauthorized Medicare Covered Surgery Stop Being Medicare's Payment Responsibility? - Salveson v. Sebelius

LMSAs and a Meeting of the Minds – Bruton v. Carnival

Legislative Analysis on 2011 CMS WCMSA Submission Data

Legit workers' compensation claim

Maryland House Bill 114  - A Great Reason to Annuitize or Professionally Administer MSAs in Maryland

H.R. 5284 – Medicare Secondary Payer and Workers' Compensation Settlement Agreements Act of 2012

GAO Released MSP NGHP Report

Hadden v. U.S. Petition for Writ of Certiorari Filed

Medicare is Officially not a Collateral Source in New Jersey

"They Usually Don't Come Back at All" – A Plaintiff's Theory on Why Medicare had no Interest to Protect

Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011

The MSA Double Standard – More Favorable MSA Determinations by Federal Courts

Kentucky Pill Mill Legislation Approved by House

Caldera v. The Insurance Company of PA: Private Cause of Action by Beneficiary Harder than Ever to Win

CBO Pushes Medicare Insolvency Back Another Year

Medicare Gets Another Free Pass Under Michigan No-Fault Auto Law

ICD-10: MMSEA Reporting Crisis Averted [at least for now]

Haro Up On Appeal Too

Hadden: Will My Supreme Court Predictions Finally be Validated?

Can I spend my MSA money?

Medicare is a Defense to Bad Faith

No Reimbursement Obligation by Medicare in Situations Where it is the Primary Payer

2012 Predictions

Top 10 MSP-Related Events of 2011 - A Recap

Top 10 MSP-Related Events of 2011 – Number 1

Top 10 MSP-Related Events of 2011 – Number 2

Top 10 MSP-Related Events of 2011 – Number 3

Top 10 MSP-Related Events of 2011 – Number 4

Top 10 MSP-Related Events of 2011 – Number 5

Top 10 MSP-Related Events of 2011 – Number 6

Top 10 MSP-Related Events of 2011 – Number 7

Cases that make you go huh? - Palsgraf Revisited

Top 10 MSP-Related Events of 2011 – Number 8

2012 Outlook by Peter Rousmaniere at Risk & Insurance: Medicare Settlements and Opioid Use

Top 10 MSP-Related Events of 2011 – Number 9

Top 10 MSP-Related Events of 2011

Ametros Financial names “new” CEO

Medicare spends $250MM on....

Conrad Murray Might not be in Jail if He Only Treated Workers' Compensation Patients

Hadden v. US – Will the Supreme Court Take Cert?

Brown v. US Steel: A Story of Retirement Benefits and MSP Triggers

MSP free agents switching teams

PMSI Hiring

MSPRC adds new phone feature!!

Providio MSA created to drive structured settlement commissions?

Not so clever MSA marketing

CMS/WCRC Backlog Tops 10,000 Cases

MSP Recovery by Whatever Federal Law Available

Happy 10TH Anniversary WCMSA Review Program

Congratulations to Work Comp Analysis Group on reaching 10,000 members.

Ken Paradis is out at CPSC

CMSP Designation – Worth $1,000 and a weekend of your time?

Mirabal v. C.R. Bard, Inc. et al. - Demonstration of MSP Induced Waste of Time and Judicial Resources

Restatement of the Obvious

Professional Administration - A new ethical low

Haro v. Sebelius - CMS Takes a Beating in Federal Court

Little known fact about the SSDI off-set

The Case for Independent Underwriters and Rated Ages

Kansas Workers' Compensation Reform Bill Contains Some Interesting Changes with Regard to Future Medical Benefits

White House Targets Pill Mills

Gould and Lamb in the News

Congratulations to MARC on an Improved Second Effort

(Harris v. United Healthcare) The MSP Saves the Day in a Georgia Class Action

For the cost of one MSA

Kentucky - Run for the Roses in MSP Litigation

Kentucky is Second State to Propose Bill Requiring CMS approval of MSAs

Can we settle? Yes we can! Part 2 of 5

Existence of MSA Companies Validated by the Social Security Administration

The way we were

Plaintiffs' Attorneys - Stop trying to circumvent the Medicare conditional payment reinbursement process by suing Medicare

CT Law firm opens drive through window

H.R. 4796 is Dead

Death of a Friend

Joe Paduda being sued

Words of Wisdom

Workers' Comp Claim waiting to happen

The following message was posted this morning on the NAMSAP listserv

New “Professional” designation

RIMS 2010

Good versus Evil - The Eternal Struggle