Medicare Set-Aside Re-Review Offers Another Bite at Settlement Apple

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is now offering to re-evaluate Medicare set-aside amounts that it has already approved in cases where medical cost projections have substantially change, a step that may allow more workers’ compensation claims to move to settlement. CMS introduced the so-called re-review option in the latest version of its Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Portal User Guide, dated July 10. CMS indicated late last year that it would expand its re-review process, but full details weren’t released at the time. Re-review was previo...