The original article was printed in the August issue of CLM Magazine. It was written by Heather Sanderson and Kimberly Vaughn. The industry has speculated for years whether and when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would seek to enforce civil...
As required by Section 202 of the SMART Act, CMS is required to annually review its costs relating to recovering conditional payments as compared to recovery amounts. Since 2017, CMS has maintained its threshold of $750.00 across all Non-Group Health Plan (NGHP) lines...
We recently blogged regarding CMS releasing their updated NGHP User Guide version 5.3. The primary change outlined in the Summary of Changes in the User Guide was regarding CMS’ SSNRI initiative which will ultimately replace the use of SSN’s with MBIs. For more...
As required by section 202 of The SMART Act, CMS is required to annually review its costs relating to recovering conditional payments as compared to recovery amounts. Last year in 2016, CMS announced that the threshold would be $750 across all non-group health plan...
CMS has released an updated Non-Group Health Plan (NGHP) User Guide version 5.2. It can be found here. There is only one minor change to the User Guide, which is to reflect the new thresholds for workers’ compensation, liability and no-fault claims which CMS had...
As required by section 202 of The SMART Act, CMS is required to annually review its costs relating to recovering conditional payments as compared to recovery amounts. For the past three (3) years, the liability TPOC threshold has been maintained at settlements of...
