See Articles Written by the Ramos Law Team About Medicare Set-Aside
The Georgia Governor and Legislature amended the Workers’ Compensation Act to limit the medical benefits afforded to injured workers. Currently, if you are injured on the job, you are entitled to
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A colleague recently asked me what happens to the funds placed in an established Medicare Set-Aside when the injured employee/beneficiary dies before the funds are completely exhausted. Since my legal responsibility usually ends once an MSA is established I did not readily know the answer to this question and I had to dig through old…
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As a general rule federal law requires parties involved in workers’ compensation claim to consider Medicare’s interests in the event of a settlement. 42 CFR 411.46. However there is one major exception to this rule.
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As April 15th draws nearer and my mailbox starts to fill with W-2 and yearly interest statements I am reminded of the old adage, only two things in life are certain; Death and Taxes. Oddly enough my recent dealings with Medicare Set-Asides
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Developing a Medicare Set-Aside makes it easy for insurers to consider Medicare’s interests during workers’ compensation negotiations. Federal law requires that employers, group health plans, and insurance companies, consider the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) interests during the settlement of workers’ compensation claims. There are several ways the parties may consider CMS’s interests
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Workers’ compensation insurers will have to change the way they do business, starting July 1, 2009. On this date, the SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 will take effect, forcing
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