November CMS News: Mandatory Reporting and Conditional Payment Updates
Posted on November 24, 2020 by Tower MSA Partners
Here’s a recap of recently announced CMS news: CMS News #1: Medicare Conditional Payment Appeals Guide In follow-up to its September 2020 webinar on Medicare conditional payment appeals through the Commercial Repayment Center (CRC), CMS converted the slides into an…
What Do Medicare Part D, Medicare Set-Asides and Parenting Have in Common?
Posted on March 2, 2018 by Rita Wilson
For those who have raised children, or are in the process of doing so, one of our biggest challenges is to instill in our children some sort of positive decision-making paradigm in our children. You can call it religious values,…
CMS Releases Annual Report on CRC Conditional Payment Recovery
Posted on September 5, 2017 by Daniel Anders
On 8/30/2017 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its annual report on the Commercial Repayment Center’s (CRC) Medicare conditional payment collections for the 2016 fiscal year (10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016). In short, the report documents the CRC identified $243.68…
Federal Court Holds Against Medicare Practice of Over-Inclusive Reimbursement Demands
Posted on February 13, 2017 by Daniel Anders
The California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) has prevailed in its lawsuit (Cali. Ins. Guar. Ass’n v. Burwell, No. 2:15-cv-01113-ODW (FFMx), 2017 U.S. Dist. Ct. LEXIS 1681) against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) challenging the practice of over-inclusive…
Posted on January 27, 2017 by Daniel Anders
Tower MSA Partners CEO, Rita Wilson, was recently interviewed by WorkersCompensation.com following her participation in a January 24, 2017 “State of MSP” webinar presented by the National Alliance of Medicare Set-Aside Professionals (NAMSAP). Workerscompensation.com asked Rita to comment on CMS’s…
Removal of SSN from Medicare IDs Detailed in CMS Open Door Forum
Posted on January 23, 2017 by Daniel Anders
On January 17, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held a Special Open Door Forum to detail how the Social Security Number Removal Initiative (SSNRI) impacts the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) community. CMS’s explanation is summarized below…
CMS MSA Review Expansion to Liability Planned for 2018
Posted on January 4, 2017 by Daniel Anders
We are not even a week into 2017, but already have news to share regarding Medicare’s planned expansion of its Workers’ Compensation MSA review process to liability in 2018. In its recently released Request for Proposal for the Workers Compensation…
Workcompcentral Highlights Tower MSA CEO Rita Wilson’s “Edge” in MSP Compliance Technology
Posted on December 20, 2016 by Tower MSA Partners
Tower MSA Partners CEO, Rita Wilson, is the subject of a recent Workcompcentral article, Focus on Tech Has Guided MSP Compliance Co. CEOs Career, highlighting how Rita’s career in building better pharmaceutical and worker’s compensation technology systems led her to…
Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-aside Portal (WCMSAP)
Posted on November 29, 2011 by Tower MSA Partners
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has completed its Pilot Testing of the Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-aside Portal (WCMSAP). The CMS will be conducting a Town Hall conference call on November 29, 2011 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm…
Posted on October 19, 2011 by Tower MSA Partners
Wyden, Portman Lead Effort to Make Medicare Secondary Payer Program More Efficient, Save Taxpayer Dollars Bill Makes Common Sense Reforms to Medicare’s Reimbursement Rules to make it easier for the program to collect from Third Party Payers FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:…
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