CMS officials issue reminder on Medicare secondary payer laws
October 28, 2012Participating Medicare providers, physicians, and other suppliers must not accept from beneficiaries any co-payments, coinsurance payments, or other payments, for services rendered when the primary payer is an employer-managed care organization (MCO) insurance plan, or any other type of primary insurance such as an employer group health plan, U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) officials warned in a new Medicare Learning Network (MLN) Matters® article last month.
