U.S. Senate Bill Aims to Clarify Frustrating Medicare Set-Aside Process

After many think sessions with stakeholders over the past two years, advocates say a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate this week would clean up what has been a messy approach to Medicare set-asides. Senate Bill 3079, sponsored by Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, is a new and improved version of a bill the two introduced two years ago but which never emerged from committee. The new bill would essentially force the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to recognize provisions of states' workers' compensation laws, and would allow injured wo...