A liability case out of a District Court in Louisiana, Benoit v. Neustrom, 2013 U.S. Dist. Lexis 55971 (April 17, 2013), issued an order wherein a Liability Medicare Set-Aside (LMSA) was apportioned and ...
Read More A reader of this blog recently pointed out that workers with relatively high earnings may not be adequately covered by workers' compensation. One's expenses tend to parallel one's net ...
Read More Medicare Advantage Plans (MAPs), also known as Medicare Part “C”, are private insurance plans which provide Medicare benefits to beneficiaries. A beneficiary may opt to receive their Part A and B ...
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The impact of the Affordable Care Act is just beginning to be felt. There is anything but a becalmed marketplace that is trying to determine how the law is supposed to operate on a daily basis, and its ...
Read More On March 29, 2013, CMS issued its first ever WCMSA Reference Guide. To view and download a copy of the guide, please click here.
At the beginning of this 88 page guide, CMS states that the guide was written ...
Read More The global economic crisis brought terms like Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from the financial section of your weekend paper to the lead headlines on the evening news. Even the ...
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Case law as it pertains to Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) compliance in liability settlements continues to reach different conclusions in different courts. In fact, the only aspect that appears to be ...
Read More A recent case out of a Mississippi District Court, Welch v. American Home Insurance Company, 2013 U.S. District LEXIS 25948 (February 26, 2013), determined the amount of a Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) in a ...
Read More This question gets asked a lot at public meetings, hearings and classes I attend or facilitate. I can summarize one perspective with the following:
“Workers' compensation is ...
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