Medicare Secondary Payer Reform – The Time is Now! 

 For the past year, the core objective of the Medicare Advocacy Recovery Coalition (MARC) has been to achieve Medicare Secondary Payer reform.  MARC has been aggressively advocating for improvements to the complex and often unfair Medicare Secondary Payer Act.  MARC is now one step closer to success.  

H.R. 4796, known as Medicare Secondary Payer Enhancement Act of 2010, was introduced in the House by Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA/8^th District).  This bill was submitted to the House in an attempt to rectify the significant problems with resolution of conditional payments under the MSP Act.  The following is the legislative summary for H.R. 4796 as found on MARC’s Web site: 

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