Voluntary CMS Submission: New Language in Consent to Release Form

Daniel Hayes

Before a proposal for a Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Arrangement (WCMSA) may be voluntarily submitted to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for formal review, the claimant must provide written permission to the submitter by completing a Consent to Release form.  In the past, there have been situations where a claimant may have…