title: Medicare program; Medicare secondary payer amendments. Interim final rule with comment period.
abstract: This interim final rule with comment period implements amendments to the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) provisions under Title III of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA). The MMA amendments clarify the MSP provisions regarding the obligations of primary plans and primary payers, the nature of the insurance arrangements subject to the MSP rules, the circumstances under which Medicare may make conditional payments, and the obligations of primary payers to reimburse Medicare.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017054:Insurance, Medigap / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States