Hummel Consultation Services

Hummel Consultation Services is an advanced legal consultation practice specializing in the interpretation and application of the Medicare Secondary Payer Program. HCS was founded in 2002 by Attorney Christine Hummel and Joseph Hummel to respond to the growing concern of the insurance industry to the increasing pressures by the federal government u... pon all manner of settlements, and to provide an innovative and exciting approach to customer service not previously exhibited by existing Medicare vendors. The Medicare Secondary Payer Program, established under the Medicare Secondary Payer Act of December 5, 1980, requires consideration of the interests of the Medicare program within all settlements involving Medicare beneficiaries. Federal regulations established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) specifically outline the applicability of the Program to the future medical portions of workers' compensation settlements. The obligations of HCS to its clients are: To ensure that all parties with an interest in the settlement are in complete compliance with all conditions of the Medicare Secondary Payer Program, To act as a mediator between the parties to the settlement and the federal government, To provide a superior level of customer service to all interested parties, regardless of any formal relationship between them and HCS. It is the objective of the entire staff of HCS to provide the most accurate compliance services possible, at the lowest cost to our customers, with the highest quality of customer service. The Medicare Secondary Payer Program requires essentially two major functions to be performed in a settlement involving Medicare beneficiaries. The first is the determination of a future medical allocation, sometimes referred to as a Medicare Set-Aside (MSA), and the second are conditional payment lien searches. A properly constructed MSA ensures full consideration of Medicare's interest in the settlement, and the conditional payment lien search satisfies Medicare's lien upon the ...Read More