MEDVAL General Counsel Quoted on CMS Recovery Actions
Columbia, MD – January 18 – MEDVAL General Counsel, Jennifer Jordan, was recently quoted in the article, “CMS May Have no Statute of Limitations in Recoupment Actions,” published on WorkCompCentral on January 18, 2010. The article focuses on the recent lawsuit filed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) against the original defendants, their insurers and the attorneys representing 907 Medicare beneficiaries involved in the 2003 settlement of a class-action lawsuit against Monsanto and its spin-off, Solutia. Jordan notes that a little known provision inserted into the Medicare Part D bill allows CMS to retroactively recover funds from any party that has failed to protect Medicare’s interest in the course of a settlement. While the particular MSP provision was not passed into law until after this settlement was finalized, the amended statute permits retroactive enforcement back to 1980, as if it had been part of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act as originally enacted.
For the complete article, visit WorkCompCentral. For a copy of the complaint filed by CMS, click here.
