New Medicare Safe Harbor & Reporting Threshold for Workers’ Compensation Settlements

Daniel Hayes

Under the SMART Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is required to set minimum Section 111 mandatory reporting thresholds for liability claims, as well as establish a “safe harbor” regarding conditional payment reimbursements.  For liability claims, this number was originally set as $300 as of September 6, 2011, then raised to $1000…