July/August 2010: Funding an MSA vs. Keeping Medical Open: What is the Right Choice? But what happens when the prescription medications cannot be limited further? What if the MSA amount is still high?  Do you fund the MSA or keep medical open?  The answer in many cases will be to fund the MSA. Learn More...(Aug Insider)

June 2010: MedAllocators Identifies Nearly $2 Million in Potential MSA Reductions as a Result of New CMS Policy. As reported in the May 2010 MSA Insider , the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a memo stating Medicare Set-Asides (MSAs) should not include non-Medicare covered prescription medications. Learn more...(June Insider)

May 2010: CMS Vindicates MedAllocators Policy on Pricing Prescription Medications in MSAs: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a memo on May 14, 2010 advising it will no longer include non-covered Medicare Part D prescription medications on Workers Compensation Medicare Set-Asides (WCMSAs). (May Insider)  

April 2010: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been challenging to deal with the terms of development letters and pricing of prescription drugs.  This MSA Insider addresses this and offers some solutions. (April Insider)  

February 2010 SPECIAL EDITION: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a delay in the implementation of Section 111
Mandatory Reporting from April 1, 2010 to January 1, 2011.(Special Edition)

January 2010: Medicare Fires Shot Across the Bow of Settling Parties. On December 1, 2009 the federal government filed suit in federal court in Alabama (USA v. Stricker, 1:2009cv02423) seeking reimbursement against parties in a mass tort settlement involving PCB pollution.Read More..(MSA Insider Jan 2010)

December 2009: Medicare Changes Procedures for Requesting and Challenging Conditional Payments. (MSA Insider December 2009)

October 2009 SPECIAL EDITION: MedAllocators Provides Solutions to Unreasonable Prescription Drug MSAs from CMS. (Special Edition)

October 2009: CMS continues to limit reconsiderations of approved MSAs and Introducing MReporter SBS. A small business solution for reporting only a few claims per year to meet Section 111 obligations. (MSA Insider October 2009)

September 2009: CMS moves towards web-based MSA Submissions and MedAllocators is ready. (MSA Insider Septemebr 2009)

August 2009: CMS releases memo and MMSEA, Section 111 User Guide. (MSA Insider August 2009)

July 2009: MedAllocators Newest Service: Focused Onsite Nurse Review (MSA Insider July 2009)

June 2009: Medicare Initiates Indepensent Review of Prescription Drug MSAs (MSA Insider June 2009)

April 2009: Changes in Prescription Drug Prices (MSA Insider April 2009)

January 2009: CMS sues Attorney to Collect Medicare Lien (MSA Insider January 2009)

November 2008: CMS Reporting Requirements: Update (MSA Insider November 2008)

August 2008: CMS to Consolidate Regional Offices: Special Report (MSA Insider August 2008 V2.0)

See New CMS Regional Map for 2008

August 2008: Mandatory Reporting Requirements: Update; the SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (MMSEA) (MSA Insider August 2008)

June 2008: Changes at CMS: New Policy Memo (MSA Insider June 2008)

April 2008: New Federal Legislation: Update (MSA Insider April 2008)

January 2008: Federal Government Passes New Legislation: Stiffer Penalties for Non-Compliance (MSA Insider Special Edition)

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