Our counsel spearheaded the effort to form MARC, the Medicare Advocacy Recovery Coalition, an organization of attorneys, claims administrators, and risk management personnel concerned with reforming Medicare’s process for reimbursement in liability claims involving Medicare recipients. With a goal of amending the Medicare secondary payer rules and implementing regulations, our attorneys have met with personnel at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, both in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., to push for clearer, more efficient rules of repaying Medicare in personal injury liability cases involving medical treatment for which Medicare paid. Our attorneys’ widely-distributed white paper outlines the goals of MARC and serves as a focus point for the organization’s efforts. The firm also co-authored an article that appeared in For The Defense magazine on how liability attorneys can best avoid the penalties and other pitfalls of the Medicare secondary payer rule. In addition, our attorneys advise clients and have held seminars on the procedures and notice requirements involved in repaying Medicare in liability cases.

PRACTICING ATTORNEYS: Jonathan Allan Klein, Annmarie M. Liermann, Anne F. Marchant