This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Patel Memo, the memo that launched the Medicare Secondary Payer industry. We are forced to look back over the past decade and recognize just how far we have come.
As the late, great Jerry Garcia would say, "What a long strange trip it's been".
The Patel memo resulted in a lot of frenzy and confusion, with attorneys and many others in the property and casualty industry coming to believe that CMS approval was required by law, while others, such as Jennifer C. Jordan, Esq., General Counsel at MEDVAL, found the program was virtually unsubstantiated by law or regulation, and existed only in a series of CMS interoffice memorandum posted on the Internet.
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