05/18/21
Mark Popolizio and Shawn Johnson
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released an update to Chapter 7 of its Medicare secondary payer (MSP) recovery manual. The updated changes are effective on April 19, 2021.
By way of brief background, CMS removed Chapter 7 from its MSP recovery manual several years ago for updating due to law and other changes. CMS has now completed these updates and is reintroducing its revised Chapter 7 to the MSP recovery manual. As part of these updates, CMS indicates that the revised chapter is smaller than the previous version “due to the fact that many of the recoveries are now performed by the Coordination of Benefits & Recovery Contractors and are no longer required to be in the [MSP recovery manual].”