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| Rafael Gonzalez |
With multiple reporting trigger points CMS is new able to capture data quickly and with the implementation of the expedited US Treasury debt collection procedures, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act). the process will now ignore the sluggish/delayed workers' compensation program/adjudication.
CMS has now operationalized a new procedure, "As part of the continuing efforts to improve the Coordination of Benefits & Recovery (COB&R) program and claims payment accuracy in Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) situations, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be transitioning a portion of the Non-Group Health Plan (NGHP) recovery workload from the Benefits Coordination & Recovery Center (BCRC) to its CommercialRepayment Center (CRC)."
Ironically, this process cuts through the red tape and cottage industry's interests of the State programs and moves the claims to the goal of Federalization of the entire system based also on a uniformity of processing, coding and determinations at the Federal administrative level. See also, D. Torrey, The Federalization Standards Issue, A Short History Before and After NFIB v. Sebelius (2012), ABA, 2013. "These views speak loudly to the expectation of educated observers that state-based workers’ compensation will endure and that federalization is unlikely."
CMS has now operationalized a new procedure, "As part of the continuing efforts to improve the Coordination of Benefits & Recovery (COB&R) program and claims payment accuracy in Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) situations, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be transitioning a portion of the Non-Group Health Plan (NGHP) recovery workload from the Benefits Coordination & Recovery Center (BCRC) to its CommercialRepayment Center (CRC)."
Ironically, this process cuts through the red tape and cottage industry's interests of the State programs and moves the claims to the goal of Federalization of the entire system based also on a uniformity of processing, coding and determinations at the Federal administrative level. See also, D. Torrey, The Federalization Standards Issue, A Short History Before and After NFIB v. Sebelius (2012), ABA, 2013. "These views speak loudly to the expectation of educated observers that state-based workers’ compensation will endure and that federalization is unlikely."
Perhaps, the very next step may be an effort to follow the liability program models, wherein pre-disposition, alternate resolution, is possible early in the process, ie. the mass tort specialized programs for resolution.
Of course, workers' compensation (WC) insurers and employers would then need to really expedite WC claims. But then, wasn't that the intent of the now antiquated 1911 system anyway?
Click below to read the post on LinkedIn:
New Process for Primary Payers Resolving Medicare Conditional Payments Begins Today
Click below to read the post on LinkedIn:
New Process for Primary Payers Resolving Medicare Conditional Payments Begins Today
