Efforts to Streamline the Conditional Payment Recovery Process Continue, Amidst Confirmation of Ramp up from the CRC

• 03/07/19
• Jean S. Goldstein

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced two upcoming webinars, aimed at addressing payment functionalities within both the Medicare Secondary Payment Recovery Portal ...
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What's the problem with impairment ratings?

• 03/06/19
• Peter Rousmaniere

Workerscompensation.com hosted a webinar with two articulate advocates for opposing sides regarding an issue which has bedeviled the workers’ compensation system for years. Alan Pierce is a claimant ...
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United States Sues to Recoup Conditional Payments; Asserts that It Does Not Have to Reduce Its Lien for Attorneys’ Fees

• 03/04/19
• Heather Schwartz Sanderson

A new decision by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, entitled United States v. Angino, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30499 (February 26, 2019), which involves the United States filing a ...
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Senate Bill 1636 Filed

• 03/04/19
• Judge David Langham

On March 1, 2019, Senator Keith Perry filed Senate Bill 1636 (SB1636). As yet, there are no "related bills" in the House of Representatives. This is worthy of note because adoption of a new law in ...
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Provide Accurate Information Directly (PAID) Act Introduced in Congress: Support MARC and The PAID Act!

• 02/28/19
• Heather Schwartz Sanderson

The Medicare Advocacy Recovery Coalition (MARC) has announced that the Provide Accurate Information Directly (PAID) Act was introduced yesterday, February 27, 2019 in the U.S. House of Representatives as ...
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Great Public Harm - and Social Media

• 02/28/19
• Judge David Langham

The Florida Bar filed a Petition for Emergency Suspension recently in a case styled The Florida Bar v. Ashley Ann Krapacs. The Petition provides an illustration of some of the perils of social media. In it, ...
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Definitions, Due Process and Waiver

• 02/26/19
• Judge David Langham

The Connecticut Appellate Court decision illustrates some interesting aspects of workers' compensation. Melendez v. Fresh Start General Remodeling and Contracting, 183 A.3d 670 (Conn. App. 2018). Fresh ...
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Perspectives: Status Woe - Outdated Regulation Impedes Healthcare Innovation

• 02/21/19
• Sandy Shtab

As a college student, I interned with my U.S. Senator, an experience that provided an early glimpse into my future career working with lawmakers in two of the most regulated fields of healthcare and ...
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Who Are Our Leaders For Artificial Intelligence?

• 02/20/19
• Peter Rousmaniere

We can see it coming -- very incrementally at first. Then there will be large disruptions. That is how the workers’ compensation field will enter into the age of artificial ...
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