Business Insurance’s Angela Childers turned to Tower’s Dan Anders for insight into how claims become catastrophic. Brand-name medications, opioids and the meds required to treat their side effects, and ineffective initial treatment are among the causes he cites. Payers can…

Dan Anders shared Tower’s experience on a possible trend to shift drug spend to ancillary services and alternative treatment (like acupuncture) and any effect on MSAs with WorkCompCentral’s Elaine Goodman. While another company said its average MSA amount was up…

The concept of not submitting a Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) for approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has become an increasingly popular topic in workers’ compensation.  This week’s WorkCompWire Leaders Speak features Tower Chief Compliance Officer Dan Anders’…

How can you use metrics to evaluate your MSP compliance and MSA programs? And, what metrics apply? Tower CEO Rita Wilson shares key performance indicators, ways payers can use them in the settlement process and apply settlement strategies to on-going…

Our Chief Compliance Officer Dan Anders discusses how the Medicare Secondary Payment Recovery Portal’s e-payment option works and its potential benefits and drawbacks in this workerscompensation.com article. Scheduled to go live on April 1, the portal allows full or partial…

“Medicare for All” is a big news story these days. WorkCompCentral’s William Rabb interviewed our Chief Compliance Officer Dan Anders for this in-depth examination of how universal health care could affect workers’ compensation. (Subscription required.)   Read it Here.

Daniel M. Anders, JD, MSCC, the Chief Compliance Officer for Tower MSA Partners, has been elected to the board of directors of the National Alliance of Medicare Set Aside Professionals (NAMSAP) and will serve on its executive committee as treasurer…

Tower MSA Partners is launching a free, quarterly webinar series to help payers become more proficient in settling workers’ compensation claims, Medicare Secondary Payer compliance and Medicare Set-Asides. The first webinar on January 23 at 2 p.m. Eastern features a…

Over the past year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been enhancing its web-based Medicare Secondary Recovery Portal (MSPRP) which has improved its usefulness in identifying and resolving Medicare conditional payments. CMS’s latest improvement, effective January 5,…

Wednesday, January 23, 2018 at 2:00 PM ET One of the simplest ways to lower the cost of settlement is through a structured Medicare Set-Aside. Not only does this reduce the employer or insurer’s cost of funding the MSA, it…