CMS Guide to Administer Workers' Comp MSAs Not 'User Friendly'

By Mark Larson,  ReporterWorkers' compensation industry analysts wonder whether a first-ever user guide issued March 21 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will spur more attempts by claimants to administer their Medicare Set-Aside accounts by themselves, or frustrate those efforts.The "Self-Administration Toolkit for Workers' Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Arrangements," is designed to aid workers' compensation claimants who self-administer their MSAs. While it contains information that the agency has already disseminated, the guide is the first to pull togethe...