Medicare program; Medicare secondary payer data match--HCFA. Notice

This notice provides employers with information about the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Data Match Program that involves HCFA, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Social Security Administration. The Data Match was provided for by Section 6202 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989. Under this provision, employers who receive data match questionnaires from HCFA for those employees who are Medicare beneficiaries or the spouse of a Medicare beneficiary must report certain health plan coverage information. The information will be used to determine whether Medicare payments for these beneficiaries should be or should have been primary or secondary to any payment that should be or should have been made by an employer group health plan (GHP).