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Product Liability-Related Medicare Secondary Payor Reporting Delayed

By James M. Beck and Mark Herrmann

Last week we posted about the advent of onerous new reporting rules for product liability defendants with respect to Medicare Secondary Payor matters, courtesy of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007.

Apparently the government shares at least some of our apprehensions. We recently received a heads up from Alphie Nelson at Watten Discoe that implementation of the reporting requirements has been postponed by the government for several months. Here's the government's notice of the postponement.

This is only a stay of execution, not a pardon, folks, so use the time to make sure you're ready.

Full post as published by Drug and Device Law on May 08, 2009 (boomark / email).