Medicare Set-Aside, Workers’ Compensation, Medical Case Management
CMS recently released ten years (2009 through 2019) of medical projections. The projections portray expenditures in a variety of areas, including funding source (private, Medicare, Medicaid), type of service (hospital, physician, drugs, etc.) and others.
click here to access the projections.
On December 1, 2009, The United States filed suit to recover conditional payments owed from a class action settlement. See CV 09-PT-2423-E, U.S.A. v. Stricker et al. While the complaint was short and only attached the master settlement documents, it appears that the United States may be seeking reimbursement for conditional payments made both before and after the settlement date. Read the rest of this entry »
Senate health reform efforts will include a proposal to close Medicare Part-D’s “doughnut hole,” providing better prescription drug coverage to seniors.
As reported by CNN this morning, the proposed Medicare buy-in to seniors aged 55 to 64 will be dropped from reform efforts to avoid a Republican filibuster.
Health reform proponents are considering an option to allow seniors aged 55 to 64 to buy-in to Medicare, but the measure is being scrutinized by several key senators.
