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Monday, June 20, 2011

CMS Recovery Contractor Publishes New Rights and Responsibilities Letter

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has now posted its newly revised Rights and Responsibilities letter. The letter complies with the Court's Order in Haro v. Sebelius which restrict the application of interest while an appeal is pending. The letter no longer demands that an attorney withhold settlement proceeds from a case.

CMS employs outside contractors to collect conditional payments that Medicare has paid and for which it is only secondarily responsible

"The Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Contractor (MSPRC) protects the Medicare trust fund by recovering payments Medicare made when another entity had primary payment responsibility. The MSPRC accomplishes these goals under the authority of the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Act. The MSPRC identifies and recovers Medicare payments that should have been paid by another entity as the primary payer either under a Group Health Plan (GHP) or as part of a Non-Group Health Plan (NGHP) claim which includes, but is not limited to Liability Insurance (including Self-Insurance), No-Fault Insurance, and Workers' Compensation. The MSPRC does not pursue supplier, physician, or other provider recovery'." 


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