Tag Archives: Social Security Medicare Coordination of Benefits (COB)

Medicare Beneficiaries Expected to Take the Federal Government’s Interests Into Account When Settling Injury Cases

Workers’ Compensation recipients who settled their cases since 2001 have had to set aside money and/or make provisions for future medical care payments if they have also been receiving Federal Medicare benefits. In the context of an on-the-job injury or disease claim, when a workers’ comp claimant settled their claim, and the settlement included money…

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Workers Compensation claims and the Social Security Medicare Coordination of Benefits (COB) section

With the advent of the Medicare Coordination of Benefits (COB) section, counsel for the claimants must consider and work with Medicare issues in nearly every Workers Compensation settlement. COB’s mandate, to enforce federal statutes and regulations so as to recover health care payments by the Medicare program during the pendency of an injury claim or…

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