Insurers Stress 'Good-Faith' Exception to CMS Reporting Penalties

By John P. Kamin, ReporterThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Studies is seeking proposals on how it should penalize insurers who violate the agency's claim-reporting requirements, and payers are responding that the agency should not penalize insurers who are making a good-faith effort to send the agency their data.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Studies issued an advance notice of public rulemaking on Wednesday that requested public comment on civil monetary penalties for failure to comply with the Medicare Secondary Payer Act. The act requires both group health and non-group heal...