MSP News
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Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Portal “Go Paperless” Webinar Highlights
By P. Czuprynski The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted a webinar to discuss its option for carriers, self-insureds, or their recovery agents to obtain service of conditional...
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New WCMSA Reference Guide Provides Much Needed Clarification On Section 4.3
By B. Smith On March 21, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) Reference Guide, Version 3.6. The update to...
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How To Make Sense of the CMS WCMSA Webinar
by B. Smith As promised, CMS hosted a WCMSA webinar on February 17, 2022. Although acknowledging that Section 4.3 of the Guide was the most pressing issue webinar participants wanted...
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CMS Issues New Guidance on Evidence-Based MSAs in WCMSA Reference Guide Version 3.5
Earlier this month, CMS issued Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Arrangement (WCMSA) Reference Guide Version 3.5. The guide includes a new section, The Use of Non-CMS-Approved Products to Address Future...
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CMS Releases NGHP User Guide Version 6.5
by Frank Fairchok, Vice President of Medicare Reporting Services In what continues to be an exciting time of change in the Medicare Secondary Payer space, CMS released version 6.5 of...
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CMS Announces Acceptance of Records with Future Entitlement Date
by Frank Fairchok, Vice President of Medicare Reporting Services On September 27, 2021, CMS announced they would begin accepting record submissions where the entitlement date is up to three months...
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Slides Available – CMS’ PAID Act Testing Webinar
CMS recently published a copy of the slides from their September 9 webinar presentation, Provide Accurate Information Directly (PAID) Act Testing, to the What’s New page on CMS.gov. For more...
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Key Takeaways from CMS’ PAID Act Testing Webinar
by Frank Fairchok, Vice President of Medicare Reporting Services Last week, CMS hosted a webinar to discuss the testing plan for changes to the query process. These changes are mandated...
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CMS Releases Version 5.7 of 270/271 Health Care Eligibility Benefit Inquiry and Response Companion Guide
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Benefits Coordination & Recovery Center (BCRC) just released version 5.7 of the 270/271 Health Care Eligibility Benefit Inquiry and Response Companion Guide...