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Health Care & Hospital Law

Mar. 1, 2013

SMART Act streamlines Medicare process

On Jan. 10, President Barack Obama signed the Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers Act into law, which consisted of a series of reforms to the Medicare Secondary Payer Act. By Sue Junn


By Sue Junn


On Jan. 10, President Barack Obama signed the Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers (SMART) Act into law. Consisting of a series of reforms to the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, the SMART Act streamlines the process for obtaining Medicare conditional payment information by Medicare claimants and primary payers such as liability insurers, self-insureds and worker's compensation insurers. The SMART Act also amends provisions relating to manda...

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