Apr 29, 2020
A recent decision out of Rhode Island demonstrates a common dilemma wherein a Non-Group Health Plan (workers’ compensation, liability, or no-fault insurance carrier or self-insured) Responsible Reporting Entity (RRE) is stuck between a rock and a hard place (Medicare...
Apr 1, 2020
A lawsuit filed in in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas by the U.S. alleges that the plaintiff attorney in a personal injury action (Carrigan & Anderson, PLLC and Attorney Stephen P. Carrigan individually) failed to reimburse...
Mar 9, 2020
As we had blogged about last October, the 9th Circuit in CIGA v. Azar held that CIGA as a Guaranty Fund was not a “primary plan” under the MSP, due to the fact that CIGA pays for medical care only if the insurer is insolvent, and as such the WC claim does not...
Mar 3, 2020
The Different Paths to Protect the Medicare Trust Fund Medicare for All, Continued Privatization of Medicare and Growth of MSP Enforcement Are All on the Table Efficiency and expansion of healthcare coverage is of paramount concern in the 2020 presidential election....
Feb 24, 2020
In a decision out of the Eleventh Circuit, MSPA Claims v. Kingsway Amigo, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 4554 (February 13, 2020), Plaintiff MSPA Claims (aka MSP Recovery LLC) was able to persuade the Court that the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) 3-year claims filing provision...
