Health Care & Hospital Law
Oct. 12, 2011
The 'Potemkin Village’ called Medicare set-asides: real enforcement of secondary payer rules
Why the Medicare set-aside program is not what it seems to be. By William L. Winslow of Farmer & Ridley LLP
During the 1930s in the Soviet Union, an expression came into use to describe certain regime practices: Soviet officials would take foreign visitors to an apparently prosperous village full of happy peasants and present the "Potemkin Village" as a typical, rather than exceptional, scenario.
It appears that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is engaged in the same kind of behavior with the Medicare seco...
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