Medicare Secondary Payer System Has Improved, but More Changes Needed, Panel Says

A federal judge once referred to the Medicare Secondary Payer law and accompanying rules as some of “the most impenetrable texts within human experience,” and confusion about set-aside compliance was not uncommon. The clarity of the language and the entire Medicare set-aside process improved markedly with the hard-won Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers Act, also known as the SMART Act, of 2012. But a few areas of the system continue to cause trouble, and more improvements are needed, said panelists at the first day of the National Alliance of Medicare Set-Aside Pro...