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You are here: Home / Claims Resolution and Settlement / Professional Administration / Medicare is Issuing Denials

Medicare is Issuing Denials

June 4, 2019 By //  by Marques Torbert

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) asserts it has the right to deny paying for a treatment if a settlement recipient still has funds in a Medicare Set Aside (MSA) or has not properly reported their full exhaustion of those funds. Some attorneys, adjusters and injured parties have questioned over the years – is Medicare really denying bills? The truth is that Medicare is issuing denials.

Below is an image of a true denial letter from CMS. The following document is a Medicare Summary Notice sent to a Medicare beneficiary. On page 2, you can see that a service was not approved, and looking at footnote E, CMS explains:

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“Your claim has been denied by Medicare because you may have funds set aside from your settlement to pay for your future medical expenses and prescription drug treatment related to your injury(ies).”

In this instance, a man settled his case in 2014, without a professional administrator. Unfortunately, he did not spend his MSA funds in accordance with CMS guidelines. He was receiving denial letters from Medicare, and they were not paying for treatment, so he reached out to us asking for help.

This document shows that CMS is becoming savvier and denying treatments that should be paid for with settlement funds. Injured parties that do not expend their settlement funds appropriately are at risk of jeopardizing their future Medicare benefits.

Author Marques Torbert, CEO Ametros. Prior to Ametros, Marques worked as an investor and consultant within the insurance and business services sector. Marques was previously the principal adviser to Millbrook, an Associate with Clarion Capital Partners (a middle market private equity firm), and an investment banker with Lazard Freres. He has been instrumental in working with multiple privately held organizations within the claims solutions management and managed care industries. Marques obtained his B.A. in Economics from Columbia University and his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Ametros Financial, and is also a member of the Board of Trustees for Merrimack College, as well as, University School, a private K-12 school in Cleveland. Marques currently resides in Boston with his wife Alexandra and (un)fortunately is also a Cleveland Browns fan.

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