On April 12th, the Florida Supreme Court ruled on the proposed amendment to rule 4-1.5 and rejected it. What does this mean for lien resolution outsourcing? Read more about it in the post.
In August of 2010, Pete Stark Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health for the House Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to the GAO requesting an examination of “issues surrounding Medicare...
Wife awarded 17.5% of funds set aside in a WCMSA as part of a marital dissolution upheld by Illinois appellate court.
Hadden is a case of extreme importance in the field of Medicare conditional payment resolution. Medicare currently does not take into account factors that lead to reduced recovery when resolving...
In Frank, the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana addressed a motion for “Determination of Need for, and Amount of Medicare Set Aside for the purpose of complying with...
The MSPRC announced today a new option for resolving Medicare conditonal payment obligations for settlements $25,000 or below. The new option allows for self calculation of the amount and submission...
In Hadden v. US, the 6th Circuit rejected an argument for equitable distribution of a Medicare conditional payment obligation similar to Ahlborn.
With all of the changes on the liability Medicare set aside front, this blog post will summarize all of the relevant issues present in today's settlement landscape.
CMS has once again pushed back the start of reporting of settlements with Medicare beneficiaries by insurers. It was set to start on 1/1/11. It has now been pushed back to 1/1/12.
For settlements of $5,000 or less there is now an option to pay 25% of the settlement proceeds to Medicare to resolve the conditional payments regardless of the amount of the payments made by...