LexisNexis has partnered with the National Workers' Compensation & Disability Conference ® ! Join your fellow LexisNexis Workers' Compensation Law Community members at this year’s National Workers' Compensation & Disability... Read More
By Jennifer C. Jordan, Esq. The annual conference held by the Risk and Insurance Management Society is being held April 15 through April 18 at the Philadelphia Convention Center and, as always, is anticipated to be the biggest gathering of insurance... Read More
By Jennifer C. Jordan, Esq., General Counsel, MEDVAL, LLC Liability Medicare Set Asides Of the series of memos released by CMS on September 30, 2011, the most notable established a policy for when a liability Medicare set-aside (LMSA) would not be... Read More
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Patel Memo , the memo that launched the Medicare Secondary Payer industry. We are forced to look back over the past decade and recognize just how far we have come. As the late, great Jerry Garcia would say... Read More
At the 19th Annual Workers' Compensation and Disability Conference & Expo, Las Vegas, NV, attorney Robert Rassp interviewed author and editor Jen Jordan of MedVal on the new handbook The Complete Guide to Medicare Secondary Payer Compliance by... Read More
By Jennifer C. Jordan, Esq. In California, there is a unique trend compared to the rest of the nation in that the Medicare Set-Aside process is primarily defense driven with less than full disclosure to the Applicants. While not applicable to all employers... Read More
It is important to be familiar with the criteria for reporting to avoid being late in adhering to the MMSEA Section 111 requirements. The determination of whether to submit a claim is dictated by two criteria, both of which must be met to require reporting... Read More
By Jennifer C. Jordan, Esq. Progress is the theme of this year’s update to The Complete Guide to Medicare Secondary Payer Compliance , 2012 Edition (available in October; see special offer below). Nothing has improved so much that people don’t... Read More
By Jennifer C. Jordan, Esq., General Counsel, MEDVAL, LLC Medicare set-asides have become an albatross for all insurers. And despite all their efforts to do exactly what CMS wants in the interest of protecting the Medicare Trust funds, CMS is constantly... Read More
August 22, 2011 – Columbia, MD. The Medicare Secondary Payer Charitable Foundation (MSPCF), a newly founded not-for-profit organization, announces that it will provide free professional Medicare Set-Aside Administration nationwide for qualified... Read More
“ The Complete Guide to Medicare Secondary Payer Compliance (LexisNexis) is a long awaited one-stop resource for the myriad of statutes, regulations, manuals, and memoranda proliferated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Ms. Jordan... Read More