Much has been written, and even more has been discussed in noisy courthouse corridors, about the Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSPA), as amended by the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007, and its impact on the personal injury bar.
Do the reporting requirements of the Extension Act, which are being implemented on Jan. 1, 2011, portend the imposition of “big government” into the litigation process, or are these requirements merely a tempest in a teapot that will blow over resulting in “business as usual?”
