CMS Submission Process for Workers' Compensation Medicare Set-Asides (WCMSAs)
Oct 13, 2009
Workers' Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) Process "Good news, over 85 responses were received to the "Survey for Workers' Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) Process." The results confirm ...
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Data Matching with CMS
Oct 13, 2009
In a letter to those participating CMS stated: "This voluntary reporting arrangement has now ended. On July 1, 2009, Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act (the MMSEA) became ...
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US EPA Targets Hazardous Chemicals for New Regulations
Oct 13, 2009
Proposed Initiative Lisa Jackson, US EPA Administrator, in a speech before the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco announced the Administrations proposed initiative to finally ban the use of asbestos....
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Hexavalent Chromium Exposure Claims
Oct 13, 2009
Senate Committee on Veteran’s Affairs On October 8, the Senate Committee on Veteran’s Affairs will hold a hearing on chemical exposures including the hexavalent chromium incident. Chromium exposure C...
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Workers Compensation is Part of the Great Health Care Debate
Oct 13, 2009
A System Created in 1911 The health care delivery system of the nation's compensation system is a patchwork of acts enacted in 1911 that have changed little since then. While modern medical science h...
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Injured Workers Law & Advocacy Group
Oct 13, 2009
Workers' compensation is a national system Workers' compensation is a national system established in the US in early 1900's. The concept of a compensable industrial disease has developed only recentl...
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Supreme Court Declines to Review a RICO Case
Oct 13, 2009
US Supreme Court In Schoedinger a Petition for Certiorari had been filed to the US Supreme Court in a RICO claim involving a medical provider who claims an insurance company committed fraud in proces...
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The Toxic Legacy in Iraq Getting Workers Sick
Oct 13, 2009
Hexavalent chromium The exposure was a result of a release by KBR, Inc. to, “...dichromate, a rust-fighting industrial chemical and highly-concentrated hexavalent chromium compound, Hexavalent chromi...
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Emergent Care Medical in Workers' Copensation
Oct 13, 2009
A Recent Report The Honorable Peter J. Calderone, Director and Chief Judge of the NJ-DWC, delivered a highly favorable report to attorneys attending a workers’ compensation seminar yesterday. The aca...
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Medicare's Aggressive Debt Collection Practice
Oct 13, 2009
Medicare Collects A recent article in Mother Jones reports upon the adverse consequences of Medicare's aggressive debt collection practices upon the aging population. The article describes the evolut...
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