Industry Insights
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Anders: 'Lead, not Follow' Approach Yields Compliant, Cost-Effective MSAs | 05/13/2019 | |
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| Source: Dan Anders | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Just like all of us, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services makes occasional errors. Believe it or not, the government is not infallible. ...Read More | |||
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Anders: April 1 Brings Electronic Payment Option to MSPRP | 03/18/2019 | |
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| By: Dan Anders | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In a March 13 webinar, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provided a high-level overview of the electronic payment option to be added to the Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Portal (MSPRP) effective April 1. ...Read More | |||
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Anders: New Year Brings New Enhancements to MSPRP | 01/16/2019 | |
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| By: Daniel Anders | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Over the past year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been enhancing its web-based Medicare Secondary Recovery Portal, which has improved its usefulness in identifying and resolving Medicare conditional payments. ...Read More | |||
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Anders: Apparent Change in CMS Policy Expands Inclusion of Lyrica in MSAs | 11/05/2018 | |
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| Source: Dan Anders | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Lyrica is a brand name-only medication that costs $8.91 per pill at 150 milligrams. Over a 20-year life expectancy, this is close to $200,000 in an Medicare set-aside allocation. ...Read More | |||
| Are Injuries Sustained While Driving From AME Exam Compensable? | 01/19/2018 | ||
| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | |||
| Minarik v. Del Taco is a somewhat recent panel decision, and now writ-denied claim, in which a workers' compensation judge and the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board held that injuries sustained en route to an agreed medical evaluator exam on an accepted case were compensa...Read More | |||
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Alves: The Six-Month Rule | 11/30/2017 | |
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| By: Farai M. Alves | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| This article addresses the infamous six-month rule, what exactly the rule is, how far it can be taken and how to stop it from being taken too far. It is not the purpose of this article to delve into whether, and to what extent, a psyche claim can still be alleged post-January 2013. ...Read More | |||
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Anders: Accurate Section 111 Reporting of ORM Vital to Avoiding Repayment Demands | 07/27/2017 | |
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| By: Dan Anders | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| While the Commercial Repayment Center (CRC) has faced some valid criticism over the past year and a half over its recovery efforts on behalf of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), not all problems start with the CRC. CRC’s recovery efforts are driven by the data ...Read More | |||
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Anders: MSAs, Professional Administration Provide Much Needed Assurances | 03/21/2017 | |
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| By: Daniel Anders | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| These first few of months of 2017 have been, to put it mildly, volatile in national politics. ...Read More | |||
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Anderson: Stereotypes Won't Help Florida's Workers or Produce Real Reform | 10/14/2016 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| As the chair-elect of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the Florida Bar, I believe it is important to correct misconceptions and misstatements made by the head of the Florida Chamber of Commerce regarding Florida’s workers’ compensation system and the attorneys who represent ...Read More | |||
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Aurbach: Recalibrating Resilience, Part 1 | 07/05/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Editor's note: This is the first of a three-part series on resilience. The second and third parts will post on Wednesday and Thursday. ...Read More | |||
