Views Differ on What CMS' Manual Says about Workload Threshold

By David Dankwa, Senior ReporterThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ latest handbook on Medicare set-aside arrangements, by most expert accounts, contained a compilation of previously-released policy memos and nothing new in terms of changes to existing guidelines and procedures.Nonetheless, one managed-care company − San Jose, Calif.-based EK Health Services − believes the document released March 29 is more than just another instruction manual. EK Health insists the guidelines represent “a major shift in CMS’ approach to defining MSA policies and proc...