Goldstein: Zero MSAs: What's All the Chatter About?

Over the last several weeks, the Medicare Set-Aside community has been astir with all of the forthcoming Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services changes — from a new CMS review contractor, to possible threshold changes, to the expansion of review for liability MSAs, and now, to the latest buzz about how CMS reviews and approves zero MSAs for denied claims.  For many in the MSA industry, this latest news has sparked concern. Historically, for many MSA submitters, obtaining a zero approved MSA was not a difficult process. However, during a recent internal quality aud...