The MSPRC has temporarily suspended issuance of Rights and Responsibilities letters as well as demand letters. The MSPRC is still working on resolving conditional payments, this is just a hold on...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Trusiak of the Western District of New York develops protocols for Liability Medicare Set Asides. This unprecedented action is perhaps the first in a line of similar...
In sure to be highly litigated issue, Medicare has been enjoined by a United States District Court in Arizona from certain enforcement practices under the MSP.
The United States District Court in the Western District of Michigan holds MSP cause of action to determine conditional payment amounts is premature because there was not settlement, judgment or...
The Florida Bar, in response to a personal injury lawyer’s request, issues Staff Opinion 30310 finding it unethical for defense counsel to request plaintiff counsel sign a release which includes...
An Arizona Federal District court finds PacifiCare of Arizona, a Medicare Advantage plan (Part C), does not have a private cause of action to recover payments it made on behalf of an injury victim...
An Arizona Federal District court finds PacifiCare of Arizona, a Medicare Advantage plan (Part C), does not have a private cause of action to recover payments it made on behalf of an injury victim...
In Alcorn, a federal district court refused the plaintiff’s attempt to bring in CMS to determine the amount of a potential conditional payment obligation prior to a settlement, judgment or award.
The Benson v. Sebelius decision reaches a result opposite to Bradley because medical expenses were claimed in the wrongful death action on behalf of the survivors instead of the estate.
The ABA house of delegates, during its 2011 mid-year meeting, adopted a resolution regarding Medicare Set Asides and reform of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act. It is the same old thing though,...