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CLM Magazine: Mapping Out a Course

11/7/2018

In an article for CLM Magazine, MARC Coalition’s Heather Sanderson urges primary plans to consider best practices as courts rule in favor of Medicare Advantage Plans (MAP) recovering double damages. Sanderson astutely notes that with both the 3rd and 11th Circuit Courts finding in favor of MAPs being allowed to bring an Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) private cause of […]

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Morning Consult: The ‘Secondary Payer’ Program – A Medicare Fix We Can All Get Behind

07/28/2018

In health policy, the minutia is not trivial; it’s essential. Small incentives created by policymakers can have a significant impact upon how Medicare beneficiaries, doctors, hospitals and insurers respond to health care claims. But sometimes policies — even the most well-intentioned — can have unintended consequences, leading to wasted resources, burdensome regulations and broken promises to […]

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CLM Magazine: Time to Get Paid

06/12/2018

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 […]

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H.R. 5881 Introduced in an Effort to Add Transparency to MSP Reporting Information

05/24/2018

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 […]

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MARC Coalition Applauds Reps. Bilirakis, Kind on Bipartisan Bill to Improve Medicare Secondary Payer Policy

05/21/2018

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 […]

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MARC Applauds Inclusion of Bipartisan and Bicameral Medicaid Third Party Liability Provision in Continuing Resolution

02/18/2018

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 […]

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MARC Champions Enactment of Medicaid TPL Provision in Bipartisan Budget Agreement

02/9/2018

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 […]

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MARC Coalition Warns CMS: Medicare Set-Aside Arrangement are Ripe for Opioid Abuse

01/22/2018

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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