A Federal District Court in Miami recently refused to determine whether a Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) was required in a personal injury case. In Early v. Carnival Corp., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16711 (Feb. 7, ...
Read More A lifelong friend of mine who works in Florida for a city government suffered a workers' compensation injury last year. Fortunately, it wasn't an inherently serious situation; a torn index finger ...
Read More The costs of work-related injuries are felt by individuals, families and communities. The personal and human costs are immense but difficult to quantify. Injury costs associated with ...
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The SMART Act reforms certain aspects of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSP) and the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (MMSEA). While the SMART Act does not directly broach how to protect ...
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Interacting with case managers at conferences and workshops, I learn a lot about case management practices that work… and some that don't. I hesitate to call the ones that work ...
Read More That wily Hank Greenberg. One can always count on him to be in the headlines. The legendary ex-CEO of AIG recently initiated a suit against the federal government claiming that $183 billion dollar bailout ...
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The SMART Act was signed by President Obama today, on January 10, 2013 after having passed in both branches of Congress. The SMART Act was passed as part of H.R. 1845 and attached onto a Medicare IVIG Access ...
Read More With 2012 over, it appears that those affected by the MSP can look forward to an extremely bright and optimistic 2013. In 2012, CMS and the new WCRC vendor, Congress, and the DHHS were more proactive than ...
Read More Recent media coverage on bullying has focused on tragic cases like that of Amanda Todd, the British Columbia teen who ended her life after years of bullying. But the analysis and discussions over what we can ...
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