Medicare Set-Asides: How Do You Know Your MSA is Enough?

Medicare Set-Asides (“MSAs”) are not a legally required tool. But they have significant value in protecting funds that will pay for an injured-person’s post-settlement, future medical care. These funds are necessary because 42 USC 1395y makes it illegal for Medicare to cover that medical care. But how can you be certain your MSA is enough?…

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Liability Medicare Set-Aside Requirements

do you need an msa

The General “Requirements” of an LMSA: A Technical Review Medicare Set-Asides (“MSA”) cannot exist without Medicare’s right to reimbursement first being stated in the law. Those rights arise from the Medicare Secondary Payer Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1395y(b)(2) (“MSP”) and 42 C.F.R. 411 et. seq. Then we must note that, MSP regulations and Centers for…

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Join Massive for a Lien Resolution CLE Presentation

Ahmad Zeki, Director of Business Development at Massive, will be presenting to the Inland Counties Association of Paralegals on Wednesday, January 17, 2018. The topic is ‘Lien Resolution and Future Medicals: The Ever-changing World of Liens & Future Medicals and How to Deal with Them.’ Dealing with lien claims management is frustrating and tedious. Each lien requires…

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Join Us at the WILG Annual Conference October 16-18, 2017

As proud Gold Level Advocates of WILG, we are excited to contribute to this collaborative group dedicated to success! Managing Partner Todd Franklin and Director of Business Development Ahmad Zeki will be presenting to the WILG members at the Annual Convention October 16-18, 2017 in Florida. The topic will be ‘Medicare Set-Asides: What They Do and Do…

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Medicare Set-Asides are No Longer Set in Stone

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has long followed a clear path toward revising MSAs: You couldn’t. CMS has finally changed its tune. Its newest Workers Compensation Medicare Set-Aside User Guide lays out those changes. First – let’s review the soon-to-be-forgotten, defunct MSA re-review process. The old process did not allow re-review where…

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Massive Sponsors MAJ’s Workers’ Comp Seminar

Massive is a long time supporter of the Michigan Association for Justice, and we are excited to be the lunch sponsor at the Workers’ Compensation/Social Security Seminar January 13, 2016! Massive is the country’s most accurate and reliable lien resolution company. We resolve liens with Medicare, Medicaid, Private Insurance, ERISA, Military and VA. Our expertise ensures injured plaintiffs…

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