CMS Contractor to Resume Collection Letters to Comp Attorneys

The benefits contractor for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will resume sending collection letters to attorneys in workers’ compensation cases.The Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Contractor is contracted to issue a letter known as the “Review of the Rights and Responsibility Letter.” The letter contains information on what happens when a person with Medicare files an insurance or workers’ compensation claim, what information is required from the claimant, how to elect a simple, fixed percentage option for repayment for a physical trauma-based injury, an...