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Medicare Liens + Medicaid Liens: What is Left For The Plaintiff?
Medicare liens should never take more than one-third of any settlement or verdict amount. If you ever experience a situation where the MSPRC or CMS claims more than one-third of that amount you have...
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What if Medicare’s Lien Exceeds Client Recovery
What do you do if a Medicare lien exceeds your client’s recovery? Obviously, if Medicare were to take 100% of proceeds from a settlement or verdict, plaintiffs would have no motivation to file...
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Congress Reverses Medicare Payment Cuts
Last Thursday, the House voted 417-1 to reverse cuts for Medicare payments to doctors. The Senate had already voted the same a week earlier. According to CNN Money, the move will cost the federal...
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The Idiot’s Guide to Medicare Lien Resolution
Typically, Medicare liens are placed on the personal injury case of a person whose treatment is paid by Medicare. Medicare’s agents, the COBC, MSPRC, and CMS have a right to recover funds which would...
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Medicare/MSPRC Delays Reach 109 Days
Yesterday, July 14, 2010, a Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Contractor (MSPRC) agent informed LRS that paper correspondence backlogs have reached 109 days. Unfortunately, this is 44 days longer than...
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Medicare Lien Appeals – The Five Levels
If you either (a) failed in your attempts to dispute MSPRC Conditional Payment Summaries, or, (b) simply did not dispute the Medicare lien prior to settlement, you have a series of options to reduce...
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CMS User Guide 3.1 Released
CMS has released User Guide 3.1 for MMSEA reporting. You can find a copy of the user guide on the Lien Resolution Services website, or, by clicking here. While most changes involve Responsible...
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MMSEA – RRE Reporting Begins Oct. 1, 2010
President George W. Bush signed the Medicare Medicaid & SCHIP Extension Act (“MMSEA”) more than three years ago. On October 1st, 2010, its reporting section finally goes into effect. How will...
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Med Mal Reform & Lien Resolution
The AAJ and Daily Kos are reporting the Obama administration’s proposed budget includes $250 million in Justice Department grants to help state rewrite their medical malpractice laws along the lines of...
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Benson v. Sebelius: Bad News for Plaintiffs?
This post has been delayed due to recent Medicare Alerts. We apologize for said delay; however, we believe the recent Medicare Alerts are a higher concern. We continue to monitor Medicare’s decision...
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