Medicare Advocacy and Recovery Coalition

MARC’s Heather Sanderson and David Farber penned an article in CLM Magazine outlining issues within Medicaid Third Party Liability (TPL)  programs that can be solved by implementing the Provide Accurate Information Directly (PAID) Act. “The good news is that congress has the opportunity to get Medicaid TPL right. First, Congress should focus the data and follow the money by […]

MEDVAL reports on the introduction of the PAID Act and its potential to improve Medicare Secondary Payer program. “H.R. 5881 proposes that CMS share information regarding enrollment in MAP, Part D, and Medicaid to assist with the timely discovery of conditional payments and liens.  As we have seen and written about here on our blog, we […]

Commonsense reforms to the arcane MSP policy offer a simple and taxpayer-friendly solution to increase stakeholder certainty and remove barriers to care. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  Andrew Rosenberg (arosenberg@thornrun.com), (202) 247-6301 The Medicare Advocacy Recovery Coalition (MARC) today lauded Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) and Ron Kind (D-WI) for their introduction of the Provide Accurate Information […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  Andrew Rosenberg (arosenberg@thornrun.com), (202) 247-6301 The Medicare Advocacy Recovery Coalition (MARC), a national coalition of stakeholders advocating for the improvement of the Medicare and Medicaid Secondary Payer (MSP) programs, applauded the House of Representatives’ inclusion of language in the continuing resolution (CR) to repeal Medicaid third party liability (TPL) policies that […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  Andrew Rosenberg (arosenberg@thornrun.com), (202) 247-6301 The Medicare Advocacy Recovery Coalition (MARC), a national coalition of stakeholders advocating for the improvement of the Medicare and Medicaid Secondary Payer (MSP) programs, applauded the Congress for enacting Section 53102 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 to repeal Medicaid third party liability (TPL) policies […]

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 […]

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 […]

Congress has shifted its full focus to tax reform as leadership scrambles to pass an overhaul of the nation’s code before the end of the year. Following several days of around-the-clock negotiations and speculation, The House GOP released the legislative text for H.R. 1 – The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) (text; section-by-section), signaling a significant step […]