Medicare Set Asides in Workers' Compensation:
Understanding the Risks and Procedures
 
Bob Gisclair - Gisclair Medical Services, LLC
Tom Files - myMatrixx
Tommy Ruli -  Juge, Napolitano, Guilbeau, Ruli, Frieman & Whiteley
 
History
  • A comprehensive history from the initiation of the Medicare Secondary Pay Statute (MSP) in 1980 up to the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (MMSEA)
 
Statutory Provisions
  • Protecting Medicare's interest
  • Conditional Payments, Reimbursements -  
    Self Reporting Requirements Effective July 1, 2009 - You will receive a complete copy of the MMSEA Section 111 Medicare Secondary Payer Mandatory Reporting Liability Insurance, No-Fault Insurance and Workers’ Compensation User Guide version 1.0
  • Enforcement and Penalty Provisions
  • Self Reporting Requirements Effective July 1, 2019
 
What is MSA
  • When the MSP applies - what types of claims? The basics of what makes up a Medicare Set-Aside Allocation
 
Deciding on when to complete an MSA
  • What cases need an MSA and what cases do not
 
Setting the Claim
  • The in's and out's of closing the file
 
Funding the MSA
  • Lump Sum?
  • Annuity?
 
Components of an MSA
  • How do we determine just how much to set aside
 
Establishing the Allocation Amounts
  • Just how is this amount establish
  • The specifics of how an allocator reaches conclusions
 
Drug Pricing  
  • The latest on Average Wholesale Price
 
Administration Options and Requirements
  • Can the claimant take care of these fund?
  • What happens if he/she can not?
 
Exhausting the Account
  • What happens if the claimant runs out of money in any particular calendar year?
  • Will Medicare help?
 
 
APPLIED FOR
 
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Continuing Education Seminar (6 hrs)
The Bankers Center - Baton Rouge, LA
Wednesday, March, 31 2010