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MARC Coalition Sends Letter to CMS Regarding MSA Reporting Concerns
January 23, 2025 (Washington, DC) – The MARC Coalition today sent a letter to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services urging the Agency to reform its proposal to require entities settling claims with Medicare beneficiaries to report any “Medicare Set Aside” or MSA arrangements as part of the Section 111 process. The letter requested clarification […]
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MARC Coalition Warns CMS: Medicare Set-Aside Arrangement are Ripe for Opioid Abuse
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Andrew Rosenberg (arosenberg@thornrun.com), (202) 247-6301 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) should take immediate steps to curtail the practice of recommending lifetime use of addictive pain medications for individuals who set up Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Arrangements (MSAs), according to a recent letter from the Medicare Advocacy Recovery Coalition (MARC). MSAs are a […]
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MARC Encourages CMS to Ensure Proper Management of Frequently Abused Drugs in Part D
Today, Medicare Advocacy Recovery Coalition (MARC) Chairman Greg McKenna submitted a comment letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma in response to the proposed rule entitled “Medicare Program; Contract Year 2019 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage, Medicare Cost Plan, Medicare Fee-for-Service, the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs, and the PACE Program.” In the […]
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Medicare Advocacy Coalition (MARC) – An Organization You Should be Interested In
Over the past year, I’ve been able to learn a lot about the Medicare Advocacy Recovery Coalition (MARC), an organization consisting of representatives from all over the workers’ comp industry – carriers, TPAs, comp service providers, attorneys, employers, and more. Greg McKenna, Vice President and Counsel for Gallagher Bassett Services, invited me to attend a […]
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How Medicare Secondary Payer Law Works
The Medicare Secondary Payer law essentially allows the U.S. government to recover reimbursement from insurers and self-insured plans that are legally required to the primary source of payment of medical care for individuals eligible for Medicare who settle a liability claim According to the Code of Federal Regulations, 42 CFR 411.25, the parties also are […]
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Medicare Gets Aggressive in Drive to Recoup Medical Costs
The U.S. government’s first-of-its-kind lawsuit against all parties that settled a pollution liability case signals Medicare’s aggressive push to make sure it does not pay medical expenses when others are to be the primary sources of payment, observers say. The suit filed Dec. 1, 2009, cites Medicare Secondary Payer provisions in federal law that allow […]
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