February 2022

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has increased the following penalty affecting group health plans:

Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP): Violating the prohibition of offering Medicare beneficiaries financial or other benefits as incentives not to enroll in or to terminate enrollment in a group health plan that would otherwise be primary to Medicare will now trigger penalties of up to $9,753.

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