Course Description
As time goes on, a greater strain is placed on the nation’s Medicare program to pay benefits. More Americans enroll in Medicare every year. Americans are living longer lives than a generation ago. Science is better, diets are better, and those extra years are always ones where Medicare is in line to pay the bills. Federal law prohibits payment of Medicare benefits under certain circumstances after resolving a workers’ compensation, auto, liability insurance, or no-fault insurance claim. Non-compliance with federal law may result in a denial of benefits for the Medicare beneficiary or post-settlement conditional payment obligations with potential exposure for responsible parties of up to double damages plus interest. While Medicare prefers the use of a Medicare Set-Aside as the means to comply with the future medical provisions of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, lack of regulatory and administrative guidance challenges the practitioner when examining when and how to apply Medicare Set-Asides to their cases.
Join Medicare compliance attorney John Cattie as he updates you about Medicare Set-Asides in 2025. An attorney with Cattie & Gonzalez, Cattie has helped clients maintain Medicare compliance for almost twenty (20) years. This high-level overview of Medicare Set-Asides (MSAs) shares the basics about MSAs and provides the latest updates from Medicare over the past twelve (12) months. Attendees will leave the session with best practices to be applied by the attendee to his or her practice when it come to MSAs.
Syllabus
- The Big Picture
- Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) History
- Statutory Analysis of MSAs
- Differences Between MSAs in Workers’ Comp and Personal Injury Cases
- Why Protecting a Client’s Future Access to Medicare Benefits is Important