Reversing a decision by a federal district court sitting in California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that the California Insurance Guarantee Association (“CIGA”) need not reimburse Medicare for conditional payments Medicare had... Read More

Medicare secondary payer (MSP) compliance issues remain a hot topic at insurance industry conferences and the 2017 RIMS Annual Conference did not disappoint those seeking the latest MSP news. As the annual RIMS gathering generally serves as a barometer... Read More

By Jennifer C. Jordan, Esq., General Counsel, MEDVAL, LLC The National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference generally serves as a pretty good barometer of what the industry focus will be in the upcoming year and it is evident that... Read More

CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 82 No. 5 May 2017 A Report of En Banc and Significant Panel Decisions of the WCAB and Selected Court Opinions of Related Interest, With a Digest of WCAB Decisions Denied Judicial Review CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE... Read More

Last November I had the pleasure of participating in a panel with two more eminently qualified folks—Jennifer C. Jordan of MEDVAL, LLC and Tim Nay at Nay & Friedenberg —about Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) compliance at the 23rd Annual... Read More

A Federal Bankruptcy Court in Pennsylvania has held in relevant part that a Medicare Set-Aside is not subject to administration by a bankruptcy trustee because it is not property of the bankruptcy estate in spite of the fact that it might be held in a... Read More

The Rassp Report, a law blog Robert G. Rassp, Esq. Author, " Lawyer's Guide to the AMA Guides and California Workers' Compensation ," 2015 © Lexis Nexis/Matthew Bender & Co. Chairman of the Board of Directors, Friends... 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

By Mark Popolizio, Esquire Section 111 Senior Legal Counsel Crowe Paradis Services Corporation The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will implement a new Self-Calculated Final Conditional Payment Amount option beginning in February 2012... 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: Mark Popolizio, Esquire In Caldera v. Insurance Company of State of Pennsylvania , No. C-11-321, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12888 (S.D. Texas February 2, 2012) a claimant filed a private cause of action claim against the workers’ compensation carrier... Read More

There is a garden industry that has emerged since 1997 in California of companies who have become “WCMSA specialists”, promoting themselves as experts in developing WCMSA proposals that will pass muster with CMS. Most workers’ compensation... Read More

There is a garden industry that has emerged since 1997 in California of companies who have become “WCMSA specialists”, promoting themselves as experts in developing WCMSA proposals that will pass muster with CMS. Most workers’ compensation... Read More

By Mark Popolizio, Esquire Section 111 Senior Legal Counsel Crowe Paradis Services Corporation The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will implement a new Self-Calculated Final Conditional Payment Amount option beginning in February 2012... Read More

The Rassp Report, a law blog Robert G. Rassp, Esq. Author, " Lawyer's Guide to the AMA Guides and California Workers' Compensation ," 2012 © Lexis Nexis/Matthew Bender & Co. Chairman of the Board of Directors, Friends... Read More