Medicare Secondary Payer and Workers’ Compensation Settlement Agreement Act:...
Introduced into the US House of Representatives on April 27, 2012, the Medicare Secondary Payer and Workers’ Compensation Settlement Agreements Act of 2012 (HR 5284) aims to streamline the settlement...
View ArticleCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Advanced Notice of Proposed...
This advance notice of proposed rulemaking solicits comment on standardized options CMS has considered making available to beneficiaries and their representatives to clarify how they can meet their...
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CMS New WCMSA Decision Memo: TENS Units: Not Appropriate for Chronic Low Back...
Tens units not appropriate for low back painThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) issued a new memorandum that will affect pricing determinations for TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve...
View ArticleIs The Tidal Wave of CMS Development Letters Behind Us?
In case you didn’t hear us shouting from the rooftop, Tower MSA Partners (as well as other companies across the MSA industry) was notified Tuesday, May 13, 2014 that full MSA approval had been given...
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Pre-MSA Triage Works!
Inappropriate and/or unnecessary prescription drugs, along with recommended medical procedures that are recommended, but never performed, are all too common in workers’ compensation claims. Yet they...
View ArticleCMS to ‘Consider’ Expanding Its Review Process to Include Liability MSAs
In a News Alert released Thursday, June 9, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced is considering expanding its voluntary Medicare Set-Aside Arrangements (MSA) amount...
View ArticleFDA Mandates New Warnings for Opioid and Benzodiazepines
In a statement released on September 1, 2016 (FDA Black Box Warning), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that “after an extensive review of the latest scientific evidence, it is requiring...
View ArticleIn a Volatile Political Climate MSAs & Professional Administration Provide...
This is a joint article between Ametros Financial and Tower MSA Partners These first few of months of 2017 have been, to put it mildly, volatile in national politics. The incoming Trump Administration...
View ArticleOpioids in the MSA… Challenges and Strategies
If seeing the word opioids one more time doesn’t trigger some sort of reaction, whether sadness, anger, desperation, or possibly hope at what appears to be traction to ‘Turn the Tide’ of addiction,...
View ArticleUpdated Section 111 User Guide Provides for Transition to MBIs, ORM...
Pursuant to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015, CMS is required to transition all Medicare beneficiaries from the Social Security Number based Health Insurance Claim...
View ArticleWhat Do Medicare Part D, Medicare Set-Asides and Parenting Have in Common?
For those who have raised children, or are in the process of doing so, one of our biggest challenges is to instill in our children some sort of positive decision-making paradigm in our children. You...
View ArticleWhat Gets Measured Gets Managed.... What's Your Number?
In today’s digital environment, if you are an employer, carrier or TPA, you are likely inundated with data. You get claims data, medical and pharmacy data, predictive analytics, benchmark performance...
View ArticleGrowing Press Surrounds Tower MSA’s Groundbreaking MSP Automation Suite
An article today posted by Yahoo! Finance discusses the new MSP Automation Suite by Tower MSA. The article cited the groundbreaking and sophisticated technology developed by Tower MSA that drives the...
View ArticleWorkcompcentral Highlights Tower MSA CEO Rita Wilson’s “Edge” in MSP...
Tower MSA Partners CEO, Rita Wilson, is the subject of a recent Workcompcentral article, Focus on Tech Has Guided MSP Compliance Co. CEOs Career, highlighting how Rita’s career in building better...
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