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04/18/22  |  News and Events

Hedrick Gardner’s Central Office Relocating to Upscaled Dwelling

CHARLOTTE, April 18, 2022 — Exciting changes come to fruition as Hedrick Gardner moves into their freshly renovated facility in Charlotte’s Rotunda building at 4201 Congress Street, in Suite 300, on April

03/21/22  |  Workers’ Compensation

500 Weeks of TTD Benefits, Part 2

In a recent publication, we discussed the issue of what standard the North Carolina Industrial Commission and North Carolina Courts would use to interpret the provision of the North Carolina Workers’ Compensation

01/12/22  |  Medicare Set-Asides and Medicare Compliance

Medicare Aims to Shut Down Non-CMS-Approved WCMSAs

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an updated Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Arrangement (WCMSA) Reference Guide – Version 3.5, on January 10, 2022. In that Reference Guide, CMS reiterated

06/21/21  |  Medicare Set-Asides and Medicare Compliance

Medicare Provides New Way to Terminate Ongoing Responsibility for Medicals (ORM)

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an updated Section 111 NGHP User Guide – Version 6.4, on June 11, 2021. CMS will now allow the termination of ORM if the

12/03/20  |  Medicare Set-Asides and Medicare Compliance

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Maintains $750 Reporting Threshold

The SMART Act requires CMS to annually review the costs associated with the collection of Medicare conditional payments and set forth a threshold amount applicable to settlements, judgments, awards, or other payments

12/01/20  |  Workers’ Compensation

NC Commission Revises Form 19 (FROI) Filing Requirement

Effective Dec. 1, 2020, the North Carolina Industrial Commission has revised the filing requirement that triggers the submission of a Form 19,  Employer’s Report of Employee’s Injury or Occupational Disease to the Industrial

07/21/20  |  Alerts

Response to COVID-19

In response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) the firm is taking action to continue serving clients while keeping the health of clients and our staff top priority. All our offices are currently operating

05/20/20  |  Civil Litigation

SC Supreme Court Provides Framework for Contesting Coverage of Construction Defect Jury Verdicts in Declaratory Judgment Actions

In Ex Parte: Builders Mutual (In Re: Palmetto Pointe v. Island Pointe), Opinion No. 27970 (May 13, 2020), the South Carolina Supreme Court held Insurers did not have a right to intervene in