Medical Cost Projections and Medicare Set-Asides (MSAs)
October 12, 2023
Rasa Fumagalli, JD, MSCC, CMSP-F
The Differences Between an MCP & LMSA
A Medical Cost Projection (“MCP”) report helps a personal injury attorney quantify an injury victim’s future medical expenses. The report is generally prepared by a …
Liability Medicare Set-Asides: Where are we Today?
November 12, 2020
By: Rasa Fumagalli, JD, MSCC, CMSP-F
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been slow in providing detailed guidance in the area of liability settlements that include compensation for future medicals. To date, …
Workers’ Compensation Case: What about the Medicare Set-Aside?
February 13, 2020
An inquiry that Synergy receives on a regular basis involves a Medicare-eligible claimant who has both a workers’ compensation and a third-party liability companion case. The third-party liability claim has resolved and now the workers’ comp carrier …
Liability Medicare Set-Asides (LMSAs): Is It Time to Start Worrying?
B. Josh Pettingill
For over a decade, there has been episodic activity from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Liability Medicare Set-Asides (LMSAs), including but not limited to, policy memorandums, Medicare Learning Network announcements, a notice …
Liability Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) Case Studies: Eliminate, Reduce & Comply
B. Josh Pettingill
There is mounting evidence that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will establish formal guidelines for liability MSAs in the imminent future. Medicare Secondary Payor compliance related to future medical care is an issue that …
